Backend Engineering Lead – Business Expense Management

We are looking for a Backend Engineering Lead to join our team.

What the job involves:

• You’ll be joining a growing team that is expanding the way Business customers can use their Wise Account.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.