Engineering Lead Wise Platform Card Issuance

Wise; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial technology company in Singapore is seeking an Engineering Lead to expand and scale its innovative card infrastructure product. This role involves leading engineering teams, shaping product vision, and driving technical excellence. The ideal candidate has deep fintech experience, proven leadership skills, and strong proficiency in Java and microservices architectures. This full-time position offers a unique opportunity to build a category-defining product globally.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Deep customer obsession and accountability for product success.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java (8) and Spring Framework.
• Deep understanding of microservices event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience working with designing and optimizing relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of team services.
• Shape product vision and roadmap alongside Product Manager.
• Empower and grow the engineering team.
• Support technical decisions for high-quality product development.
• Build strong inter-team relationships to accelerate problem-solving.

Skills

Leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams

Customer Obsession

Get It Done Mindset

Java (8) and Spring Framework

Microservices event-driven architectures

Designing and optimizing relational databases

Advocating and inspiring other teams

Curiosity and Creativity

Job description

Salary range: SGD 14500 - 22500 per month RSUs

Wise is building the worlds most powerful money movement infrastructure designed to make international payments instant low-cost and transparent. Our mission: money without borders.

Weve built a high-scale cross-border platform that processes billions in volume across 70 countries and were now bringing that infrastructure to banks fintechs and global platforms through Wise Platform our enterprise offering.

Were now looking for an exceptional Engineering Lead to help us expand and scale Wise Platform Issuing our global card infrastructure product. Since 2018 weve been building and operating our own card issuing and processing stack processing over 80B in card spend globally and launching millions of cards as Principal members with both Visa and Mastercard. This infrastructure has powered launches with industry leaders like Nubank in Brazil and Tiger Brokers in Singapore.

Were looking for an engineering leader with deep fintech experience to help us take Wise Platform Issuing to the next level. This is a rare opportunity to build a category-defining product at global scale backed by the engineering strength and mission of Wise Platform.

What will you be working on

• Stay hands-on and lead by example. Youll be involved in the day-to-day of designing developing and maintaining your teams services ready to roll up your sleeves review code and shape architecture

• Co-own the product vision and roadmap. Working as a critical partner to your Product Manager youll shape the why and the what not just the how. Your goal is to know the customer and the problem space so well you can lead the team to the right outcomes.

• Empower and grow your team. You will cultivate ownership and accountability at every level. Your role is to empower your team to own and drive key initiatives building the next generation of leads and staff engineers at Wise.

• Uphold technical excellence. Youll support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high-quality product that is reliable and can handle the next billion transactions.

• Influence across Wise. Youll build strong relationships across the organization to inspire other teams align them behind a shared goal and solve partner problems faster than we could alone.

Qualifications

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

• Deep Customer Obsession. You take full accountability for the success of the product youre building. Youre obsessed with solving real problems for our partners and feel the pain points they face to ensure were building what matters.

• A Get It Done Mindset. You combine urgency with focus to unblock your team and deliver results without waiting for perfect conditions. You balance momentum and quality moving quickly while always building for scale.

• Strong hands-on experience with Java (8) and Spring Framework.

• Deep understanding of microservices event-driven architectures and the ability to design scalable reliable systems using best practices.

• Strong experience working with designing and optimising relational databases.

• Ability to advocate and inspire other teams and people across the organization to rally behind solving complex problems.

• Curiosity and Creativity. You dont just accept problems as they are. You constantly ask how we could make something 10x better not just 10% cleaner.

Additional Information

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were 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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Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time