Global Credit Platform Engineering Lead

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

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RSUs

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Job summary

Wise is building an international credit program and a transparent, reliable system for global use. We seek an Engineering Manager to own the first credit offering, ship the initial cards and lead a high‑performing team. You will drive the technical roadmap, hire engineers and collaborate with product managers to deliver scalable fintech solutions.

You will guide architecture, code reviews, and best practices while ensuring compliance and reliability across a global market.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.
• Experience delivering products from 0 to 1 and in payments/fintech domains.
• Proven leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap and ensure the product is maintained to high standards.
• Lead the development of new solutions and drive initiatives from the ground up.
• Serve as a technical expert for the broader credit domain.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding architecture, code reviews and best practices.
• Ensure code quality, consistency and maintainability through reviews.
• Hire, lead, coach and mentor a diverse team of engineers.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to drive product road-mapping and strategy.
• Collaborate with other managers, staff engineers and product teams to shape roadmaps.
• Navigate priorities, make trade-offs and deliver solutions that reduce risk and unlock growth.
• Represent the team and lead projects from inception to release.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Payments / fintech

Leadership / mentorship

Cloud architecture

Job description

Wise is building an international credit program and a transparent, reliable system for global use. We seek an Engineering Manager to own the first credit offering, ship the initial cards and lead a high‑performing team. You will drive the technical roadmap, hire engineers and collaborate with product managers to deliver scalable fintech solutions.

You will guide architecture, code reviews, and best practices while ensuring compliance and reliability across a global market.