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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.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
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Job DescriptionRole Purpose
As an Incident Operations Engineer Lead, you will support the day-to-day execution of Wise’s incident management processes. This is an exciting opportunity for someone eager to learn how a global fintech handles service disruptions. You will act as the "control room" for incidents, ensuring technical teams are connected, stakeholders are updated, and every lesson learned is documented.
Key Responsibilities
1. Incident & Problem Support
Incident Facilitation: Support the coordination of active incidents by opening communication channels (Slack/GoogleMeet), ensuring the correct on-call engineers are available, and assisting with the documenting of the incident in real time.
Post-Incident Administration: Assist in creation and completion of post-mortem meetings and ensure that action items from these sessions are correctly logged in our tracking tools.
Problem Management: Help track recurring issues and follow up with engineering teams to ensure long-term fixes are progressing.
2. Process & Documentation
Record Keeping: Ensure all incident data is accurately captured for regulatory and compliance purposes.
Runbook Maintenance: Help the team keep internal documentation and "how-to" guides up to date as our systems and processes evolve.
Tooling Support: Learn to use and help maintain our incident response tools (e.g., Rootly, Jira, Slack) to ensure they are ready when an issue occurs.
3. Data & Reporting
Metric Gathering: Assist in pulling data for weekly or monthly incident reports, helping the team identify trends in service reliability.
Stakeholder Updates: Draft clear, concise status updates during and after incidents to keep the wider business informed.
4. Technical Skills Expectations
Tool Familiarity: Exposure to or a willingness to quickly learn standard DevOps/SRE tooling (e.g., monitoring systems, ticketing systems like Jira, communication platforms like Slack).
Basic Troubleshooting: The ability to follow technical instructions and assist engineers by performing basic diagnostic steps during an incident (e.g., checking logs, verifying service status).
Additional InformationFor 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.
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Skills Required
- Coordinate and facilitate active incident response (open channels, engage on-call engineers, document in real time).
- Create and complete post-incident post-mortems and ensure action items are logged and tracked.
- Track recurring problems and follow up with engineering teams to ensure long-term fixes progress.
- Maintain accurate incident records for regulatory and compliance purposes.
- Maintain and update runbooks and internal incident response documentation.
- Familiarity with or willingness to quickly learn incident response tools (Rootly) and ticketing systems (Jira).
- Familiarity with communication platforms (Slack, Google Meet) and ability to manage incident communications.
- Basic troubleshooting ability (checking logs, verifying service status) to assist engineers during incidents.
- Assist with metric gathering and prepare weekly or monthly incident reports identifying reliability trends.
- Draft concise stakeholder status updates during and after incidents.
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Global paid time off is presented as 33–36 days including local public holidays, plus three “Me Days,” with a paid six‑week sabbatical and stipend after four years. Work-from-anywhere for up to 90 days per year after six months further complements time away and flexibility.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — RSUs are granted to all employees, enabling broad ownership in the company. Equity is positioned as a standard, company‑wide component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous across markets, with U.S. pages listing up to 18 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non‑birthing parents. Additional family‑oriented supports such as onsite Mother’s Rooms and abortion travel benefits are noted in certain locations.
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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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