Engineering Lead II Contacts & Recipients

The team you will join: Contacts

The Contacts team is a core team at Wise dedicated to making adding finding and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to Wises day-to-day operations if our services go down Wise goes down.

What will you be working on:

• Reimagining the contacts domain. We need to fundamentally rethink how we model people businesses and bank accounts. You and your team own the architecture for this: its a complex distributed systems challenge that touches everything: bank accounts local payment networks and the next generation of Wise features.

• Scaling for Wise Platform: This isnt just for the Wise app. Big banks and enterprises use our API which means our search and validation engines need to be lightning-fast and bulletproof even when our biggest partners turn on the tap.

• Defining the product roadmap: Youre not here to just churn through a backlog. Youll work side-by-side with your Product Manager to figure out what we build next. Youll be the one making the tough calls between shipping fast staying secure and building for the long term.

• Growing the team: You will start with a large high-output team with the potential to scale it further.

Technical responsibilities:

• Technical authority: You will act as the primary technical owner for the domain. You must meet the expertise bar of a senior back-end engineer capable of driving deep architectural discussions and addressing technical debt autonomously.

• Operational excellence: Drive initiatives to improve reliability and security. You will ensure the team proactively manages the health of the services that process millions of critical customer data points daily.

Leadership responsibilities:

• Team autonomy: Lead mentor and coach a team of 9 engineers building a culture where the team can deliver quickly and reliably without your day-to-day intervention in every task.

• People development: You are responsible for the performance and career growth of your engineers identifying future leaders who can help you scale this domain.

• Cross-functional alignment: Work closely with Regional teams Wise Platform and other functions to ensure our roadmap aligns with the wider Wise strategy. You will help the team navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs between speed risk and quality.

What do you need

• Strong technical background: Expert in backend engineering (Java ecosystem preferred) with a track record of designing complex distributed systems. You understand the difference between working code and scalable architecture.

• Leadership experience: You have led high-performing teams (hiring performance management coaching). You know how to manage a large team by delegating effectively to senior engineers.

• Product mindset: You understand the why behind the what. You can map technical efforts directly to business goals and customer value.

• Strategic thinking: You can switch between reviewing a Pull Request and planning the 12-month technical strategy for a critical business domain.

• Communication: Excellent communicator capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in fintech payments or Identity/Graph data domains.

• Experience building high-throughput APIs for enterprise/platform clients.

• Previous experience scaling a domain from a single team into multiple squads.

Additional Information :

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 

What do we offer: 

• Wise Benefits

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time