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Engineering Lead - Embedded Finance

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Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Engineering Lead will oversee technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate on building scalable financial solutions for partners. The role requires hands-on design and development of services.
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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 life 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.

More about our mission.

Job Description

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance vertical at Wise Platform.  Our mission is to build the world's best embedded finance platform for our partners. We work 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 to build robust, scalable solutions for them. In the team you will be exposed to a wide range of challenges for our partners from being able to frictionlessly onboard their consumer and business customers to seamlessly moving money across borders. 

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

A bit about you:

  • You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.

  • You possess strong technical expertise or background in Java or similar and modern technology stacks

  • You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.

  • 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.

Additional Information

What you get back:

  • 🚀 RSU's in a growing company

  • 💪 An annual self-development budget

  • ❤️ Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption

  • ❤️ Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay

  • 🌿 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life

  • 🌍 Relocation and visa expenses covered

  • 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

  • Find out more about our benefits in our Budapest office.

Interested? Find out more:

  • 👀 How we work – a practical guide

  • 💻 The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 edition

  • 📈 Our Engineering career map

  • ❤️Our values

  • …or check out our Engineering blog.

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.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Top Skills

Java
Microservices Architectures

Wise London, England Office

London, United Kingdom

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