Engineering Lead - Business Expense Management

Overview

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.

About The Role

Your mission: You’ll be joining a growing team that is expanding the way Business customers can use their Wise Account. Time is money, and small businesses cannot waste theirs. The business expense management team simplifies global employee expense management for small businesses. They sit within the Spend Squad and are responsible for bookkeeping, business card features and expense management. They offer a solution that allows businesses to manage their team’s spending in minutes, and maintain full control over international expenses. You’ll create simple, easy-to-use experiences for a complex financial product that serves over 700,000 businesses across the globe. You’ll own everything related to the process of tracking, submitting, and managing business expenses as smoothly and hassle-free as possible. We help small businesses collect receipts and information about expenses in the most convenient way, so our customers can focus on their work. You’ll have an opportunity to build solutions that help employees easily submit their expenses, ensure compliance with company policies, make expenses transparent for monitoring and keep bookkeeping clean. You will work closely with both the business and cards squads, and help bridge the gap between their roadmaps. You will have a direct and measurable impact across all of Wise business customers helping them save time so they can do more of the work that matters.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll be a key driver of the team’s technical roadmap, partnering closely with our dedicated Product Manager and other teams within the Spend, Business, and Account squads.
• Your work will directly enable new product features and business growth.
• Designing and building robust distributed backend systems.
• Examples of functionality can be:

• Providing the best experience around collecting and managing receipts.
• Submitting expense reports and automating the enforcement of company spend policies.
• Automating businesses month-end processes leveraging LLM technologies (documents scanning, auto-categorisation, auto-reconciliation, etc.).
• Issuing innovative business cards products (subscription cards, credit, etc.).
• Providing visibility over expenses for business owners and finance heads.

Technical Responsibilities

• Owning a technical roadmap to ensure that our application is maintained to high standards.
• Lead the development of new solutions.
• Drive initiatives from the ground up to develop entirely new products for our customers.
• Serve as a technical expert for the Business Expense Management domain.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding the team on architectural design, code reviews, and best practices.
• Ensuring code quality, consistency, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers (junior and senior), fostering a supportive environment that promotes technical growth.
• Participate in product roadmapping and strategy sessions with the product management team.
• Work closely with other Engineering Leads, Staff Engineers, and Product to shape the team’s and squad’s technical roadmaps.
• Help the team navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs to deliver solutions that reduce risk and unlock growth.
• Act as a key representative of the team, collaborating with stakeholders across the company and leading projects from the beginning till the release.
• In particular, work closely with the Business squad, Spend squad and Account Squad to help define the Wise Business spending experience for our customers.

What We’re Looking For

Technical Excellence

• You have a strong background in software engineering, with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.
• You are an expert in delivering reliable and robust services in a production environment.
• You are comfortable working on a complex domain and guiding a team through technical challenges.
• You have experience working with distributed systems, and are as comfortable discussing technical tradeoffs as you are team direction.
• Ideally some hands on experience with front end development, though not essential.

Product Mindset

• You have a strong sense of ownership and the ability to think beyond technical implementation to understand how your work impacts the business and our customers.
• You are comfortable working in an autonomous environment, and can conceptualise and drive initiatives forward to completion.
• Experience working closely with product and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritise the most impactful work.

Leadership Skills

• You are an empathetic leader with a track record of mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels.
• You can lead by example, inspiring your team to produce high-quality, maintainable code.
• You are an excellent communicator, capable of articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Ideal Background

• Experience leading a team in a payments, fintech, or other complex, high-stakes domain.
• Prior experience working on a team with a global, distributed setup.
• Experience building systems that serve enterprise clients at scale.
• Previous experience scaling teams and systems for global reach.
• A strong foundation in distributed systems, and cloud architecture.

Why join us

Your contributions will directly impact hundreds of thousands businesses that trust Wise to manage their money. The solutions you develop will play a crucial role in sustaining and accelerating Wise’s growth, ensuring that our product offering stays a step ahead of our customer’s needs and global market demands. You’ll be working in a highly collaborative environment with a highly skilled team while gaining exposure to several complex domains and the chance to shape and grow the team as its scope expands.

Additional Information

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.