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EL1 - Engineering Lead - Send Core

Wise

Wise

London, UK
GBP 100k-125k / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 25, 2025
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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

Join our Send Core as an Engineering Lead and take ownership of the core components with a mission sending money as easy, fast, and reliable as paying with a card.

As the central team responsible for the entire sending journey, you'll lead the engineering efforts that directly determine whether we achieve our card-payment-level experience and scale.

This is a high-impact role where you'll own the critical infrastructure that every sending transaction flows through - whether it's a personal transfer or a multi-million dollar business payment. You'll start with focused ownership of our core sending components but will expand to oversee a much larger domain as we scale to serve our growing enterprise client base.

What will you be working on?

  • Own the Core Sending Journey: Lead the central team responsible for all core components of the sending experience

  • Ensure Card-Level Performance: Make sending money as easy, fast, and reliable as card payments through technical excellence

  • Control Critical Infrastructure: Own the systems that every sending transaction depends on across the entire platform

  • Drive Technical Excellence: Make architectural decisions for the core components that determine sending success or failure

  • Ensure Zero-Downtime Reliability: Maintain and improve the central systems that all sending experiences flow through

  • Grow Your Team: Mentor and develop engineers while building the team that owns the most critical sending components

  • Shape the Sending Future: Partner with other product teams to define how core sending components evolve

  • Lead Cross-Team Coordination: Ensure all teams building on top of your core components can deliver exceptional experiences

Technical Responsibilities

  • Design and implement the core components that determine the speed, reliability, and ease of every transaction

  • Lead architectural decisions for the systems that all sending experiences depend on

  • Simplify complex financial systems while maintaining the reliability that enterprise clients demand

  • Ensure engineering excellence for the central components that make or break the sending experience

Leadership Responsibilities

  • Lead the central team that owns the most critical components of the sending journey

  • Foster a collaborative culture while maintaining ownership of core sending infrastructure

  • Work cross-functionally to ensure other teams can build exceptional experiences using composable blocks.

  • Drive technical discussions and decision-making for systems that impact the entire sending platform

  • Build and maintain team culture focusing on the impact


Qualifications

What do you need?

Technical Excellence

  • Strong experience building and scaling complex, high-reliability systems

  • Excellent system design and architectural thinking

  • Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate technical concepts clearly

  • Comfortable with pair programming and collaborative development

  • Language-agnostic with strong computer science fundamentals

Product Mindset

  • Clear understanding of why we build what we build

  • Focus on solving real customer problems with every feature

  • Ability to articulate the business value and customer impact of technical decisions

  • Experience working closely with product teams

Leadership Skills

  • Proven track record of growing and mentoring engineers

  • Experience with both bottom-up collaboration and top-down direction

  • Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills

  • Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities

Interested? Find out more:

  • How we work – a practical guide

  • Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

  • Our Engineering career map

  • Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

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


What do we offer:

  • Starting salary: £100,000 - £125,000 + RSU's in a growing company
  • Wise Benefits


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.

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

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