Engineering Manager - Database Platform

Wise; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Database Platform team in London. The role entails leading a team to develop robust infrastructure while ensuring high coding standards and system design principles are upheld. Ideal candidates possess strong leadership qualities, experience in Python or Java, and expertise in cloud services. Join Wise to transform the way the world manages money.

Qualifications

• Strong leader with experience guiding engineering teams.
• Solid background in development within Python or Java.
• Expertise in leveraging cloud services and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for coaching and mentoring a high-performing team.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across the organization.
• Engage with vendor negotiations and manage costs.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Cloud Services

Agile Methodologies

Tools

AWS

GCP

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

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Engineering Manager - Database Platform, London

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Client:

Wise

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

25.06.2025

Expiry Date:

09.08.2025

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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.

More about and .

Job Description

Enter: our Database Platform team!

For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B. Yet behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies, routes, products and features, generating terabytes of data each day. Database Platform is at the core and provides databases as service for the rest of the business, working with the Database Reliability Engineering team to manage our vast estate of database technologies and solutions. As an Engineering Lead in the wider Platform tribe and Engineering organization, you will have an opportunity to directly affect database technologies and automation strategy, scalability and reliability, building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the team

You will be responsible for the well-being of the team, coaching, mentoring and growing a high-performing team in bringing value by working on high-impact solutions.

You will support the team with occasional hands-on involvement as a software engineer and systems operator, bringing senior engineering expertise into building solutions.

You’ll be collaborating with other leads, engineers, product managers in the wider organization.

Exactly what you’ll be doing day to day will vary, as our team looks at the big picture challenges we see across all of analytics, engineering and business!

Is this you?

These (and feeling comfortable with the above points) are the only must-have ones for this role - everything else is flexible!

You are a strong leader, experienced in problem-solving and guiding engineering teams through the complexities of project delivery using both agile and traditional methodologies.

You’re an excellent communicator, engaging effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve goals, and are capable of presenting to the wider organization when necessary.

You're comfortable taking ownership of vendor negotiations and explaining costs to the business

Technical Specifics

You have a solid background in development, ideally within the Python or Java ecosystems, upholding high coding standards and a thorough understanding of system design and engineering principles.

You have expertise in leveraging cloud services from providers like AWS or GCP, and have used your platform engineering skills to develop robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure.

You are familiar with SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies and have a comprehensive understanding of key concepts such as high availability, scalability, and security.

Nice to Have

Passionate about technology and its relationship with product and user experience.

You are a security and privacy advocate, understanding concepts such as principle of least privilege, and are able to apply basic security principles at infrastructure and application level.

Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Packer), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers (Docker), container and job orchestration (Kubernetes).

Experience of workflow orchestration solutions such as Temporal, Cadence, or AWS step functions would be a major bonus.

Customer is at the heart of everything you do and this empathy drives all decisions you make.

Ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Knowledge/interest in payment platforms, foreign exchange & highly complex systems.

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Additional Information

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.

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