Engineering Team Lead - Business Onboarding

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London seeks an Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding to guide a team, improve processes, and shape product vision. Ideal candidates have strong leadership experience, technical background in OOP languages like Java, and a collaborative mindset. Perks include annual self-development budget, paid parental leave, and sabbatical after four years.

Benefits

RSUs in a growing company

Annual self-development budget

18 weeks fully paid parental leave

Paid sabbatical after four years

Relocation and visa expenses covered

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong product mindset and experience building customer-facing products.
• Experience with modern technology stacks and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to foster their growth.
• Shape the product roadmap and ensure delivery on goals.
• Maintain high standards for quality and collaboration.

Skills

Leadership and mentoring

Customer-oriented product mindset

OOP Languages (Java or similar)

Distributed systems

Effective communication

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Job description

Overview

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.

Job Description

The Business Onboarding team is dedicated to guiding businesses through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy, and delightful. You will lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating daily with product managers, data analysts, and designers to continuously improve our onboarding flows and processes, making them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.

Your mission:

As the Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding, you will:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
• Work closely with the Product Manager and your team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
• Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
• Stay and remain very close to the tech and product - setting high standards for quality, and leading by example.
• Own the health and productivity of the engineers in your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across Wise to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
• Own the hiring, growth and development of your team and its impact at Wise.

Qualifications

A bit about you:

• You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
• You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
• You possess strong technical expertise or background OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks
• You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
• You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.

What you get back

• RSU's in a growing company
• An annual self-development budget
• Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay
• 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life
• Relocation and visa expenses covered
• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
• Find out more about our benefits in our Budapest office.

Interested? Find out more

• How we work – a practical guide
• The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 edition
• Our Engineering career map
• Our values
• Our Engineering blog

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.

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

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.