Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
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.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job DescriptionWe're looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team. This team is building the Current Account and Everyday banking experience products, which sit at the heart of Wise. The team owns how customers hold, organise and move their money day to day - their main account and Jars, the home screen they open, the flows they use to move, convert and add funds - and the ledger and money-movement systems underneath that the rest of the company builds on top of. Our mission is to make Wise the account customers reach for every day, and ultimately the last account they'll need to open.
The role spans engineering, product and people. You'll go broad across all three rather than deep in any one. You'll guide the team, own where it takes its systems technically, and partner with your Product Manager and Design to ship what customers rely on - staying close enough to the code to make sound architectural calls and unblock the team when it matters.
What you'll be doing
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 the 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 they build on top of account.
What you'll need to succeed.
We don’t expect candidates to tick all the boxes. If you have most of the below and want to grow into the rest, we'd love to hear from you.
Technical
Strong backend engineering background, close to the code to guide senior engineers through hard problems.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and microservices, and comfort making high-impact architectural decisions.
Track record of owning the reliability, scalability and correctness of critical systems at scale.
Comfortable in a JVM codebase, or confident you'll get there fast - we're on Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.
Leadership
Experience leading a team of engineers and owning what they deliver.
Leadership through trust: you give people context and direction and let them own their work.
A clear communicator who can hold a technical argument with engineers and explain it plainly to everyone else.
Product
A product engineer’s mindset - you measure your work by customer and business impact.
Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity: you move quickly without dropping quality.
Nice to have
You use AI to build faster, and you're curious where it's heading.
You've worked in fintech, payments or banking.
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.
We're 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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Skills Required
- Strong backend engineering background
- Deep understanding of distributed systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices
- Track record of owning reliability, scalability and correctness of critical systems at scale
- Comfortable in a JVM codebase (Java/Kotlin) and Spring Boot
- Experience leading a team of engineers and owning their delivery
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical arguments clearly
- Product engineering mindset with focus on customer and business impact
- Experience using AI to build faster
- Experience in fintech, payments or banking
What the Team is Saying
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all employees via time‑based RSUs/stock awards, aligning staff with company performance. This broad accessibility makes ownership a core part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include a global minimum of 33–36 paid days off and a paid six‑week sabbatical after four years with a cash stipend. The sabbatical is positioned as a standard milestone benefit in addition to annual leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Wise commits to a minimum of 18 weeks’ fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption across many offices. Eligibility rules and tenure may apply by location while maintaining a companywide minimum standard.
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What We Do
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.6 billion.
Why Work With Us
We’re truly global in who we are, how we work, and how we build. Everything we do is centred around creating a world of money that’s fast, easy, fair. And open to all. Everyone who works here owns a piece of Wise, from the work they do, to the stock they hold.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We expect new joiners in the office most days to build connections and learn from colleagues for their first six months. After that, most Wisers split their working week between the office and home, typically coming in at least 12 times a month.
