Engineering Lead - Brazil Regional Team

Company Description

Wise, one of the world's fastest-growing companies, is on a mission to redefine global finance by making money without borders the new norm.

About Wise: Current banking systems present challenges in seamlessly sending, spending, and receiving money across borders. At Wise, we are crafting a new financial infrastructure to address these limitations.

Job Description

We are seeking an Engineering Lead based in our London office, offering a flexible combination of in-office and remote work. As an integral part of our mission, you will lead a team dedicated to optimizing and launching new products, building the most convenient and scalable onboarding experience for Brazilian people and business in compliant way with local regulatory guidelines.

We are enabling customers to onboard Wise conveniently without any unnecessary friction. We make sure that we only ask information that is easy to provide, and effectively helps us combat fincrime. Automating information collection and review will make the onboarding experience of customers quicker, and help us scale our operation with the growing number of customers. 

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Brazil Team:

• You’ll integrate with several local partners and government institutions to power our onboarding experience.

• You’ll manage an infrastructure that enables Wise to comply with local regulatory requirements.

• You’ll multiply Wise’s growth rate by unlocking core functionality through the power of APIs and cross-border payments infrastructure - in short, the products you build will help Wise reach consumers and small businesses wherever they are managing their money in global environments.

• You'll lead, coach and grow a team, as well as shape the technical vision.

• You’ll own onboarding, verification and reporting flows and improve the customer experience.

• You’ll scale a best in class product across Brazil while ensuring the learnings you have in-market are shared back with our other global regions.

• As an engineering lead, you will be responsible for the quality of your team’s technical solutions, including code quality, architecture applicability, performance, reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards.

• As a people manager, you will be responsible for your team's productivity, goal setting, career path identification, mentoring and supporting people in your team. Also you’ll make sure the team has the right size and mix of profiles. Decide when to hire. Think about the team organization and evolve the team when needed.

Qualifications

Is that you?

• You want to work for a company where you believe in its mission

• You’re passionate about building high quality products, working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey

• You’re enabling your team to solve complex problems by breaking them down into small iterative steps of incremental value

• You’ve built and designed scalable and performing systems

• You have experience building integrations with external partners

• You have experience with microservices architecture, asynchronous message queues and SQL databases

• You are still hands on with coding, and enjoy getting your hands dirty

Nice to have:

• You’ve worked with Java/Kotlin, preferably with Spring Boot

• Experience with financial systems integrations

What does success look like? 

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and look to future challenges

• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product has on their lives 

• You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company

• You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued

• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global finance product that impacts millions of customers

Additional Information

What Do We Offer?

• Compensation: £100,000 - £120,000 Base Salary + RSUs
• Numerous great benefits in our London office

Interested? Find out more:

👀 How we work: a practical guide

⚙️ The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition

📈 Our Engineering career map

🎉 Our 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.

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