Job Description
hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
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Company Description
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. nMin fees. Max ease. Full speed.
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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.
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As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. nFor everyone, everywhere.
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More about our mission and what we offer.
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Job Description
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We’re hiring an experienced Engineering Lead to join Account Management (Hold) – the team that enables customers to hold, manage and organise money across Current, Savings and Child accounts.
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Our mission is to make Wise the best everyday banking solution for international customers by increasing hold volume, account adoption and long-term retention. This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll guide engineers, own the team’s technical direction, and be accountable for the reliability, scalability and correctness of core account systems. You’ll work closely with Product, Design and Analytics to deliver cross-functional initiatives, and you should be comfortable making high-impact architectural decisions and getting into the details when needed.
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What you’ll be doing
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- nTranslate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs (hold volume, account adoption, etc.).n
- nLead and coach engineers; own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.n
- nActively contribute to the codebase: ship changes, review designs and unblock technical work when needed.n
- nIdentify opportunities to improve the Account product, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.n
- nWork with Wise Platform, Finance and other squads to enable new financial products built on the Account platform.n
- nSet and own the team’s technical direction, driving architecture and design decisions for globally scalable account systems.n
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Qualifications
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What You’ll Need to Succeed
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We know candidates won’t have every skill listed — if you have several of the bulleted skills and are keen to learn the rest, we want to hear from you.
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Hard skills
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- nTechnical leadership & system design expertise: strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems, event-based architectures and microservices; able to make high-impact architectural decisions.n
- nComfortable owning reliability, scalability and correctness for systems that process customer balances and money flows.n
- nProven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams and growing senior ICs.n
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Soft skills
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- nLeadership through empowerment: build autonomous teams by providing context, trust and clear direction (not micromanaging).n
- nProduct mindset: you prioritise customer impact and business outcomes, not just technical implementation.n
- nClear communicator: able to explain technical concepts to engineers and non-technical stakeholders and align cross-functional partners.n
- nBias to action and comfort with ambiguity: able to move quickly while maintaining quality and compliance.n
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Nice to have
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- nExperience in fintech or high-volume transactional environments (payments, banking or similar).n
- nExperience designing and optimising databases and data models for high throughput and correctness.n
- nExperience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).n
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Additional Information
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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.
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We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. nInclusive 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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If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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