About this role
About the Role Wise is looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team. This role spans engineering, product and people, guiding the team responsible for the Current Account and Everyday banking experiences, the core flows for holding, moving and managing money, and the underlying ledger and money-movement systems. You’ll help make Wise the account customers reach for every day while staying hands-on when it matters. What You'll Do
- Lead the team's engineers — own what they ship and their well-being, and build a clear view of how to grow each of them.
- Stay hands‑on: write code, review designs and PRs, and drive whole features across backend, web and mobile, coordinating delivery across all three.
- Own the team's technical roadmap. Decide how the systems evolve, keep reliability and tech-debt risk in check, and make architectural calls that matter.
- Partner with your PM and Design, and give sharp feedback on what's worth building and why.
- Work across boundaries with the teams we build alongside: Account Sharing on joint accounts, Send on how money moves in and out, Wise Platform on products built on top of account. What We're Looking For
- Technical: strong backend engineering background close to code; deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and microservices; track record of reliability, scalability and correctness at scale; comfortable in a JVM codebase (Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot).
- Leadership: experience leading a team of engineers and owning what they deliver; leadership through trust; clear communicator who can argue technically and explain to others.
- Product: product-engineer mindset, measure impact by customer and business outcomes; bias to action and comfort with ambiguity. Nice to Have
- You use AI to build faster and are curious where it's heading.
- You’ve worked in fintech, payments or banking. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: £105K - £135K GBP + RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement (#LI-Hybrid) and Wise benefits.
- Inclusive, international team and ongoing career development.