Engineering Lead, Currency Platform
Wise
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.
We are seeking an Engineering Lead based in our London office, offering a flexible combination of in-office and remote work. Lead one of the teams under Regional Platform Squad. We are one of the longest-running squads in the company building the platform for the core domains of Wise - Transfer, Payout and Partner Integrations. Besides that we are supporting product teams to extend the Platform capabilities for the new products and the new markets.
Your team’s responsibility will be to build product platforms and frameworks that will standardise and unify banking systems across the world under the Wise umbrella. Your team's goal is to build a universal interface that would combine all the complexities of regional payment integrations into a simple working solution. This solution will be used by all internal Wise products and external Wise partners.
Managing payment integrations is just one side of the coin. Wise also holds a bunch of financial licenses in different countries. Those licenses provide our customers with different possibilities like sending money abroad, holding money, or investing into assets. You will take part in building a Product Eligibility framework that would link all the customers with all the products we can offer.
How we work
We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Singapore and London offices.
What will you be working on?
You’ll be joining Wise as an engineering lead for one of our autonomous teams. You and your team will be supported by the product manager. Your responsibilities will include:
As an engineering lead, you will be responsible for the quality of your team’s technical solutions, including code quality, architecture applicability, performance, reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards.
As a people manager, you will be responsible for your team's productivity, goal setting, career path identification, mentoring and supporting people in your team. Also you’ll make sure the team has the right size and mix of profiles. Decide when to hire. Think about the team organization and evolve the team when needed.
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!
You get things done
You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean APIs
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
Nice to have:
You have experience with Spring boot
You have experience with Kafka
Experience building highly reliable and highly available systems
We’re people without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in. Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you. And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic. 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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💻Wise Tech Stack 2025 Update
...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
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.