Engineering Lead – Business Accounting Integrations and Reporting

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

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.

Job Description

More about our mission and what we offer.

In This Role You Will

• Partner with a Product Manager and a cross‑functional team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision, and ensure we deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a talented group of engineers — helping them grow, removing blockers, and enabling them to do their best work.
• Ensure strong execution: clear planning, realistic commitments, and healthy team operations.
• Stay close to the tech and the product — setting high standards for engineering quality and leading by example.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Work with other engineering leads across Wise to keep the team aligned with our wider technical strategy and long‑term architecture.
• Own hiring, development, and long‑term impact of your team.

Qualifications

• You have strong, hands‑on technical experience in OOP languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines – you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
• Architect for scale and efficiency: Stay close to the tech and the product by leading the design of an integration platform specifically built to streamline the onboarding process and drastically reduce the engineering effort required to roll out new accounting software integrations.
• You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
• You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer‑facing products.
• You have experience working with and building distributed, high‑scalability systems and microservices architectures.
• You’re a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross‑functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.

Additional Information

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it’s like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What Do We Offer

• Starting salary: 111k – 135k GBP + RSUs
• Wise Benefits

We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

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