Engineering Lead, Acquiring Platform

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London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Wise is one of the fastest growing fintechs in the world and we’re on a mission to make money without borders a new norm
The Role
Lead the Acquiring Platform team, manage backend and web engineers, expand payment methods, and collaborate across teams to enhance user experience.
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Company Description

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 Description

Team you will be working with: Acquiring Payments

The Acquiring Platform team has the goal of receiving payments internationally, both cheap and convenient. This team has built an API, SDK and Webhooks that allow businesses and platforms, such as Woocomerce, to use Wise to power their checkout page. It offers the ability to take card payments and receive it in any currency, without forced and costly conversions. The team also manages the dashboards, payment method management, and payment details experience, together with other actions to be taken on the received payments such as refunding.

This team is working to expand this functionality. We want our API to be able to offer more payment methods such as GooglePay, ApplePay and other local payment methods, such as PIX and UBI. You will also help us expand it into more platforms, so that Wise can power the checkout in the most popular Ecommerce stores builder and Payment Service Providers.

And, we need an Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us expand our receive payments offering. As the Engineering Lead, you will manage a team of backend engineers and web engineers, mentoring and growing them. You will also work closely with the PM to decide on the next payment methods and platforms to build for next, to make receiving payments internationally both cheap and convenient a reality. You will also join the team 24/7 on-call rotation, normally on-call every 6-10 weeks.

How we work

The Acquiring Platform 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?

  • Help unlock Apple Pay/Google Pay via our APIs

  • Build the roadmap for next 2 quarters together with PM

Qualifications

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 don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

  • How we work – a practical guide

  • Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

  • Our Engineering career map

  • Automating UI model generation with KSP

  • How we build 3D animations in mobile apps at Wise

  • Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

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.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Top Skills

Java
Kafka
Non-Relational Databases
Relational Databases
Sdk
Spring Boot
Web Apis
Webhooks

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The Company
8,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

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.

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