Senior Engineering Lead & Business Pricing & Backend

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Greater London is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Lead with a strong backend focus to guide their Business Pricing team. This role involves leading, mentoring, and coaching engineers while collaborating with product managers and designers to enhance the pricing plans. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background in OOP languages and experience with scalable systems, ensuring a productive and collaborative team environment. Competitive salary of £125,000 – £153,000 offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong product and customer mindset with experience building customer products.
• Proficient in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks.
• Experience building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience working effectively with cross-functional peers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Shape the roadmap and ensure delivery on product goals.
• Ensure team is well-resourced and capable of delivering.
• Set high standards for quality and lead by example.
• Foster a collaborative culture among the engineering team.
• Align efforts with wider technical strategy.

Skills

Leading and mentoring software engineers

Building customer-facing products

Proficient in OOP Languages (Java or similar)

Experience with high scalability systems

Strong communication skills

Collaborative teamwork

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

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Lead with a strong backend focus to guide our Business Pricing team. This is a unique opportunity to have a massive impact, helping a growing number of businesses around the world join and use Wise to solve their needs.

The Business Pricing team is dedicated to building and helping businesses choose and manage the right account plans for their needs in 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 the pricing plans, experience for both new and existing customers, making them fairer, more intuitive, attractive and more scalable.

Your mission

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

• Leading, coaching, and mentoring 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

What do you need?

• 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.

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
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering — https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £125,000 – £153,000
• Wise Benefits

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