Engineering Lead - Wise for Enterprise

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for the embedded finance team. This hands-on role involves designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services while mentoring engineers to grow their skills.

You will partner with a Product Manager to shape the team’s direction, drive technical decisions, and ensure a high-quality, scalable platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional Wise teams and partners like Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda to extend platform capabilities and deliver value

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience of Java (or similar stacks).
• Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Product mindset — you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases.
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.
• Mentoring and supporting a small team of engineers in their growth and development.
• Support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high quality product that is reliable and scalable.
• Working closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and product plans.
• Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver real impact and expand the functionality we can offer to our partners on our platform.
• Ownership of the team’s services and product. Pushing best practices and high quality products.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java

Microservices

Product mindset

Relational databases

CI/CD

Communication

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 105,000 - GBP 135,000 - yearly

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance team. Our mission is to build the world's best embedded finance platform for our partners. You’ll be working closely with multiple functions within our vertical from solutions engineering and business development to understand the pain points of some of the largest enterprises in the world. Together you’ll help partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp and Agoda, leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world class embedded finance products through their own channels. This will help us transform the international payments experience for even more customers and have a significant impact on Wise’s mission.

This is a hands-on engineering lead role that will support the engineers in their growth and driving technical decisions in building reliable, scalable products. You will be working closely with a product manager in developing a long term vision and roadmap for the team and their domain.

What will you be working on?

This is a hands-on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.

Mentoring and supporting a small team of engineers in their growth and development.

Support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high quality product that is reliable and scalable.

Working closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and product plans.

Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver real impact and expand the functionality we can offer to our partners on our platform.

Ownership of the team’s services and product. Pushing best practices and high quality products.

Qualifications

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Strong hands-on experience of Java (or similar stacks).

Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.

Product mindset — you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.

Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases.

Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.

Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.