Wise
Engineering Lead - Wise Business
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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.
Wise Business is on a mission to make international business banking faster, easier, and more transparent. We build products that help businesses of all sizes manage money across borders, send and receive payments, hold and convert multiple currencies, and simplify their day-to-day financial operations. Our work helps business customers around the world save time, reduce costs, and stay in control of their finances.
Our teams are distributed across multiple locations and work closely across product, engineering, design, operations, and commercial functions. With an ambitious roadmap ahead, we’re focused on expanding our global reach, improving the customer experience, and building reliable, scalable products that support the evolving needs of businesses worldwide.
What will you be working on?
In This Role You Will
- Partner with Product and a cross-functional team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision, and ensure we deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
- Lead, coach, and mentor a talented group of engineers — helping them grow, removing blockers, and enabling them to do their best work.
- Ensure strong execution: clear planning, realistic commitments, and healthy team operations.
- Stay close to the tech and the product — setting high standards for engineering quality and leading by example.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Work with other engineering leads across Wise to keep the team aligned with our wider technical strategy and long-term architecture.
- Own hiring, development, and long-term impact of your team.
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Qualifications
What do you need?
- You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
- Architect for scale and efficiency: Stay close to the tech and the product by leading the design of an integration platform specifically built to streamline the onboarding process and drastically reduce the engineering effort required to roll out new accounting software integrations.
- 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 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.
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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
- Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering
What Do We Offer
Starting salary: 111K - 135K GBP + RSUs
Wise Benefits
For everyone, everywhere. 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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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