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Lead and mentor a distributed team of software engineers building scalable business onboarding experiences. Set technical and product direction with product managers, designers, and analysts; own roadmap delivery, engineering quality, team health, hiring, and professional development. The role requires hands-on expertise in Java, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD, along with a strong customer and product mindset.

Leads the vision, strategy, execution, and outcomes for Wise Business Payments, focusing on accounts payable, payroll, payment preparation, approvals, reconciliation, and reliable money movement. Coaches Product Managers, improves user experience, validates opportunities through customer insight and data, and aligns product, engineering, design, risk, compliance, finance, and commercial teams across complex regulated workflows.

Own global paid search strategy and customer acquisition across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Apple Ads. Manage large-scale multilingual campaigns, optimize bidding and automation with AI, lead A/B testing and conversion rate optimization, maintain forecasting and reporting dashboards, and identify growth opportunities. Serve as a search marketing subject matter expert, empower teammates, and lead cross-functional initiatives with SEO, Product, Analytics, and Paid Marketing teams.

Lead compliance strategy for Wise's Middle East and Africa region, acting as regional Compliance Director. Oversee licensing and market expansion, establish second-line operational teams, localize compliance frameworks, manage regulator relationships, and report financial crime and regulatory risks to the Board. The role also supports regional Compliance Officers, translates regulatory developments into strategic action, and ensures compliant product growth across markets including Israel, UAE, South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

Lead the architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of Wise’s high-throughput Risk API and risk assessment platform. Manage and grow a team of at least five engineers, establish engineering standards, define API contracts and data governance, ensure immutable risk evaluation logging and regulatory auditability, and partner with Product, Financial Crime, and Engineering stakeholders. Own platform resilience, availability, latency, scalability, and the technical roadmap for this mission-critical service.

Provide strategic legal advice on employment law issues, draft employment contracts and policies, support employee relations, and oversee disputes and tribunal cases.

Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices for partner integrations. Lead event-driven architecture work with Kafka, optimise PostgreSQL schemas and queries, collaborate with cross-functional teams, perform code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and drive high-quality international payment solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will drive the technical vision for backend solutions, enhance recipient management, and ensure system reliability.

Lead backend engineering for Consumer Onboarding: shape roadmap, deliver high-impact projects end-to-end, ensure system health, coach and mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to improve onboarding flows at scale.

Lead global support for high-value customers, driving operational excellence, SLA adherence, revenue via service, team growth, cross-functional collaboration, capacity planning, and continuous improvement across multiple regions.