Platform Engineering Lead - Drive Growth & Reliability (Hybrid)

Hackajob Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working setup

RSUs

Wise benefits

Job summary

Wise is hiring a senior backend leadership role in the Account Details Experience team to guide engineers, shape the roadmap, and evolve a platform powering money transfers for millions of customers worldwide.

You will work with Product to define the next two quarters, drive reliability, and contribute to architectural excellence. The role offers a hybrid UK-based setup with competitive rewards and RSUs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and expanding products through ongoing growth.
• Strong product mindset and passion for user experience, with a focus on customer needs and data-driven decisions
• Great communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead and inspire engineers to build the right things in the right way
• Ability to deliver work across multiple teams and coordinate efforts across the organisation
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns, clean code, performance, and strong testing practices
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Experience following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot and experience with a messaging system such as Kafka is a plus
• Ability to participate in the on-call rotation for critical services, normally every 6-10 weeks

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend and web engineers
• Mentor and grow team members
• Work closely with Product to shape what we build next
• Help evolve a critical platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers around the world
• Build out the receive-to-alias experience and platform
• Build the roadmap for the next two quarters together with Product Management
• Join the 24/7 on-call rotation for critical services
• Help the team improve on-call processes and service reliability

Skills

Leadership

Product mindset

User experience

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-team coordination

Incremental milestones

Data-driven decisions

Continuous learning

On-call readiness

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Query optimisation

Schema design

Job description

Wise is hiring a senior backend leadership role in the Account Details Experience team to guide engineers, shape the roadmap, and evolve a platform powering money transfers for millions of customers worldwide.

You will work with Product to define the next two quarters, drive reliability, and contribute to architectural excellence. The role offers a hybrid UK-based setup with competitive rewards and RSUs.