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Senior Engineering Lead (EL2) - Scalable Growth

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Hybrid
London, England
Senior level
Hybrid
London, England
Senior level
Lead the Onboarding squad, mentoring engineering leads, shaping product strategy, and ensuring team productivity in delivering scalable growth solutions.
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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

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Lead for our Onboarding squad. This is a unique opportunity to have a massive impact, helping a growing number of customers around the world choosing Wise to move their money without borders.

The Onboarding squad looks after a customer’s initial journey - from finding out about Wise through our organic and paid marketing channels, to signing up and successfully completing their first action. In this role, you’ll look across 3 product engineering teams that focus on the Scalable Growth part of Onboarding, working with our invite, SEO, and marketing platform domains. You'll lead a group of engineering leads and help them build high performing teams that deliver impact, alongside collaborating with your product manager and analytics counterparts to define the future of Wise’s marketing tech and how we can take our mission to more prospective customers, faster.

Your mission:

As the Engineering Lead for Scalable Growth, you will:

  • Lead, coach, and mentor a group of leads, supporting their growth, increasing their teams’ impact and empowering them to do their best work.

  • Work closely with the Product Manager and Analytics Lead of the group to shape the roadmap & strategy, set the technical and product vision and ensure the teams deliver on their goals in a robust and scalable way.

  • Enable your teams to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.

  • Have a deep understanding of the tech and product of your teams - building out a clear tech strategy that follows from our product and marketing goals, setting high standards for quality, leading by example.

  • Own the health and productivity of the teams in the space, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

  • Collaborate with other engineering leads across Onboarding and other Wise teams to ensure your teams’ work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.

  • Own the hiring, growth and development of your leads & teams, and their impact on Wise.

 

Qualifications

A bit about you:

  • You have proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering leads working across different domains. You know how to help leads in getting their teams to be high performing.

  • You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products within the acquisition / MarTech space. 

  • You possess strong technical expertise or background in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks.

  • 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 London 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.

Additional Information

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.

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
Oop

Wise London, England Office

London, United Kingdom

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