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Engineering Lead, Pay with Wise

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Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Lead the Pay with Wise team, build payment solutions via APIs, improve customer experience, and mentor engineers to create a high-performance team.
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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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

The Pay with Wise team is a new team being formed which you will have the chance to help build it from scratch. It is dedicated to making Pay with Wise the most cheap and convenient payment method for anyone paying with any currency anywhere. You will be working in helping expose Pay with Wise as a payment method in our APIs, so businesses can receive payments via it all around the world. You also will be helping make Pay with Wise the most seamless experience both for new customers and existing ones, with things like simple sign up and logging, automatic top up with connected accounts, etc. Our goal is to make  paying internationally as cheap and convenient as possible.

 

And, we need an Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build new ways of getting paid as well as improving the existing ones. As the Engineering Lead, you will first work in bootstrapping the team by helping us enable Pay with Wise via our API and then,  you will work closely with product to set up the team direction, will work with engineers to set up the team vision and will mentor and grow engineers with the goal of building a high performance team able to make Pay with Wise the best payment method in the industry.

 

The Pay with Wise team is part of the Global Product tribe, dedicated to enabling customers to receive money seamlessly and efficiently into their Wise accounts. We build innovative payment products that serve both businesses and consumers, creating convenient and reliable ways to get paid internationally.

What will you be working on?

  • Enabling Pay with Wise via our APIs

  • Improving the sign up experience for customers signing up just to Pay with Wise

  • Allowing automatic top up via connected accounts, so customers can Pay with Wise even if their balance is low

Qualifications

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

 

  • Experience leading teams and expand products in order to navigate to ongoing expansion.

  • A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

  • Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences

  • Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the prioritise building right things, in the right way 

  • Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation.. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.

  • Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value

  • Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment

  • Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 

  • Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement

  • Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews

  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus

  • Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus

  • Being part of the on-call rotation for our critical services and helping the team improve it, normally being on-call every 6-10 weeks.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

  • How we work – a practical guide

  • Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

  • Our Engineering career map

  • Automating UI model generation with KSP

  • How we build 3D animations in mobile apps at Wise

  • Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

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
Kafka
Spring Boot

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London, United Kingdom

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