Engineering Lead Account Details Experience

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 Wises Account Details helping customers discover obtain and use local account details to receive payments salaries freelance income marketplace payouts and more. Were 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 were 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 youll lead a team of backend and web engineers mentor and grow people and work closely with Product to shape what we build next. Youll 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 dont worry we dont expect you to know everything!

Interested Find out more:

• How we work a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• See what its like to work at Wise London!

• Our Engineering career map

• Wise Engineering do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: 105k - 135k RSUs

  • Wise Benefits

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  Additional Information :

  For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

  Were 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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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time