Engineering Lead - Account Details Experience (Hiring Immediately)

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.

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Job Description

Team you will be working with: Account Details Experience

The Account Details Experience team is on a mission to make Wise the first account people think of when they need to receive money internationally: quickly, easily, transparently, and like a local wherever they are.

We own Wise’s Account Details, helping customers discover, obtain, and use local account details to receive payments, salaries, freelance income, marketplace payouts, and more. We’re also expanding our alias offering, so customers can receive money using identifiers like email addresses and phone numbers wherever these are supported locally.

We want Wise to become our customers’ primary account for receiving income. To get there, we’re focused on making account details easier to discover and use, localising the experience in key markets, building trust that receiving is reliable and safe, and scaling the platform efficiently for future growth.

As Engineering Lead, you’ll lead a team of backend and web engineers, mentor and grow people, and work closely with Product to shape what we build next. You’ll help evolve a critical Wise platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers around the world. You will also join the team 24/7 on-call rotation, normally on-call every 6-10 weeks.

How we work

The Account Details Experience 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?

• Building out the receive to alias experience and platform

• Build the roadmap for next 2 quarters together with PM

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.

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Interested? Find out more:

• Wise Engineering –

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £105k - £135k + RSUs

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Qualifications

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.

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