At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to build innovative embedded finance solutions for global partners.
- Company: Join Wise, a tech company revolutionising how the world manages money.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, RSUs, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on international payments while mentoring talented engineers.
- Qualifications: Experience in leading teams, Java expertise, and a product-focused mindset.
The predicted salary is between 105000 - 135000 £ per year.
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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.
Job Description
More about our mission and what we offer.
We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance team.
Our mission is to build the world's best embedded finance platform for our partners.
You’ll be working closely with multiple functions within our vertical from solutions engineering and business development to understand the pain points of some of the largest enterprises in the world.
Together you’ll help partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp and Agoda, leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world class embedded finance products through their own channels.
This will help us transform the international payments experience for even more customers and have a significant impact on Wise’s mission.
This is a hands‑on engineering lead role that will support the engineers in their growth and driving technical decisions in building reliable, scalable products.
You will be working closely with a product manager in developing a long term vision and roadmap for the team and their domain.
What will you be working on?
- This is a hands‑on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.
- Mentoring and supporting engineers in the team in their growth and development.
- Support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high quality product that is reliable and scalable.
- Working closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and product plans.
- Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver real impact and expand the functionality we can offer to our partners on our platform.
- Ownership of the team’s services and product. Pushing best practices and high quality products.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams.
- Strong hands‑on experience of Java (or similar stacks).
- Deep understanding of microservices and event‑driven architectures.
- Product mindset — you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.
- Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases.
- Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
- What Do We Offer
- Starting salary: £105,000-£135,000 + RSU's
- Wise Benefits
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