Senior Engineering Lead - Business Onboarding

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise London is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding to shape and deliver scalable onboarding flows. You will lead engineers across multiple locations, collaborate with product managers and designers, and drive the roadmap with a customer-focused mindset.

You will coach and mentor teams, maintain high-quality standards, and own hiring and team development. The role demands strong communication and a passion for building distributed, scalable systems using Java-based tech

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP languages (Java) and modern technology stacks.
• Experience leading and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong product and customer mindset with experience building customer facing products.
• Experience building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures.
• Excellent communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers across multiple locations.
• Shape the roadmap, and set the technical and product vision to deliver goals robustly and scalably.
• Ensure resources and planning to commit to and deliver the roadmap.
• Maintain high standards for quality and lead by example.
• Own the health and productivity of engineers and foster collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams to align with wider technical strategy.
• Own hiring, growth and development of the team and its impact at Wise.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Leadership

Product mindset

Distributed systems

Communication

Cross-functional

Tools

Java ecosystem

Job description

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 our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

About the role:

The team you will be joining: Business Onboarding team

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'll 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.

As the Senior Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding, you will:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers across multiple locations, 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

What do you need?:

• You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java codebase) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.

• 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 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.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building great customer onboarding experiences (domain agnostic)

• Experience working on B2B products.

• Fluent with modern AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) — prompting, context structuring, skills/automations, and effective AI delegation— with the ability to scale this practices across the team while maintaining a high level of quality.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• See what it's like to work at Wise London!

• Our Engineering career map

• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: 135 - 175k + RSUs

• Wise Benefits

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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