Senior Engineering Lead - Business Account Experience

Hackajob Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Wise benefits

Job summary

Wise in the United Kingdom seeks an engineering leader to head the Business Account Experience team, guiding technical and product roadmaps and building scalable features for multi-product accounts.

You will coach engineers, collaborate with product managers, data analysts, and designers, own hiring and growth, and drive improvement while maintaining high standards. The role is hands-on with a hybrid setup, and the advertised salary is £100,000 per year with generous benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on technical experience with object-oriented programming languages and modern technology stacks.
• Experience managing teams with a mix of front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers.
• Hands-on experience building direct-to-consumer or business products with a high-quality user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Shape the roadmap with Product Manager and team and deliver goals at scale.
• Ensure resources, planning, and delivery commitments for the roadmap.

Skills

OOP

REST

CI/CD

Microservices

Distributed systems

AI awareness

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong, hands-on technical experience with object-oriented programming languages and modern technology stacks, including REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines; candidates will complete technical interviews to demonstrate their knowledge.
• Experience managing teams with a mix of front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers.
• Hands-on experience building direct-to-consumer or business products, with a strong sense of high-quality user experience.
• Nice to have: experience working on B2B products.
• Nice to have: familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows, including prompting, context structuring, skills and automations, and effective AI delegation; ability to scale these practices across a team while maintaining high quality.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers, supporting their growth and enabling them to do their best work.
• Work with the Product Manager and team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision, and deliver product goals robustly and at scale.
• Ensure the team is well-resourced, plans effectively, and can commit to and deliver its roadmap.
• Stay closely involved in technology and product work, set high standards for quality, and lead by example.
• Own the health and productivity of the team, fostering collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering leads and teams across Wise to align the teams work with our wider technical strategy.
• Own the hiring, growth, and development of the team and its impact at Wise.
• Lead and build the Business Account Experience team while driving its technical and product roadmap.
• Improve and build components that simplify how businesses manage their accounts.
• Optimise our core platform to support multi-product adoption and increase cross-currency volume.
• Guide first-time users through our Business account features to accelerate and streamline adoption.
• Build functionality that gives businesses greater control over their teams access and spending.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Support
• Mobile
• Product Manager
• REST
• microservices
• Claude Code
• Network
• OOP

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company building a better way to move and manage money worldwide, with low fees and an easy, fast experience. Our mission is to make international money transfers, spending, and payments easier and more affordable. You will join our Business Account Experience team, which builds a cohesive, insightful, and intuitive experience for businesses using Wise for daily operations and financial management. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role, working closely with product managers, data analysts, and designers in a fast-paced environment. The advertised starting salary is £135,000–£175,000, with RSUs and Wise benefits. The posting references Wise London and a hybrid role. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and aim to ensure every team member feels respected, empowered to contribute, and able to progress in their career.

last updated 40 week of 2026