Software Engineering Lead - Latin America

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.

*Resumes must be submitted in English to be considered.*

The Opportunity:

We are expanding our Latin American teams by establishing a new São Paulo engineering hub, building new, high-impact teams on the ground. We are looking for an ambitious and highly skilled Engineering Lead to head the Hispanic America Money Movement team, contributing significantly to the first wave of leadership talent in this hub. This is a unique opportunity to be a foundational member of our São Paulo engineering hub, helping to shape our local culture, processes, and technical direction. You will play a crucial role in expanding our product into new Hispanic American markets by integrating with local partners and connecting with local payment schemes across the region, while collaborating closely with our global teams.

Your Role:

As an Engineering Lead based in our new São Paulo engineering hub, you will be responsible for the delivery of your team and the reliability, availability and security of your systems, as well as managing the well-being, performance, and growth of the people that you lead. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will actively design solutions and write code alongside your team.

You will lead the Hispanic America Money Movement team, focused on building robust and scalable capabilities for sending and receiving money across the region’s markets. You will be instrumental in overseeing the team’s efforts and contributing directly to integrating with banks, payment providers, and other local partners, and connecting our platform to various local payment systems across the region.

This role requires a mix of technical excellence, people management expertise, and active individual contribution. You need to have a passion for both building and retaining a high performing team and delivering high-quality code and technical solutions yourself.

As an Engineering Lead, you will be a key technical leader and bar raiser for the engineers in the São Paulo engineering hub, using your expertise to guide the team's technical direction and drive the evolution of our global money movement platform.

You will have the chance to significantly influence the technical direction for your domain and team, help build a best-in-class engineering organisation right here in São Paulo, leveraging your experience to mentor and coach engineers, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment within the new hub. You will also collaborate closely with other engineering teams being established in São Paulo, and with global teams in other locations.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leading and developing a high-performing engineering team.

• Driving the team’s technical roadmap and contributing to architecture.

• Ensuring the quality, reliability, and delivery of the team’s systems.

• Contributing directly through hands-on coding and technical design.

• Manage the performance and wellbeing of the engineers of your team.

• Actively participate in the recruitment process and make hiring decisions to grow the team.

• Responsible for the growth of the engineers in the team through feedback and both passive and active coaching.

• Ensure the teams' composition is balanced and correctly sized with respect to the roadmap.

• Create a culture of ownership inside the team where every engineer is accountable for their work.

• Own the technical roadmap of the team, ensuring it addresses important technical debt and any reliability, security or scalability concerns. 

• Active contributors in the delivery of the team. You support day-to-day execution of work

• Guide the team’s technical approach while actively contributing to designing, developing, testing, and deploying features and services to enable money movement capabilities in existing and new Hispanic American markets..

• Propose and advocate for high-quality technical designs and solutions that are scalable, reliable, and compliant.

• Participate in code and design reviews within your team, providing constructive feedback to maintain and elevate our engineering standards.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers in our other global offices, to align on product vision and technical implementation for regional expansion.

• Stay updated on relevant LatAm market trends, payment systems, and regulatory requirements across the region to inform product development and ensure compliance.

• A proactive and ambitious mindset, with a desire to take ownership and make a significant impact in expanding into new markets.

• Proven experience as an Engineering Lead managing people (1+ years), with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems and a strong Product mindset.

• Up to date technical expertise in back-end development and microservices architecture.

• Java proficiency.

• Experience leading technical initiatives, guiding a team’s technical approach, and actively contributing to designing and building complex software systems.

• Strong ability to provide constructive feedback during code and design reviews.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex challenges.

• Experience collaborating with distributed or global teams.

• A passion for mentoring and coaching engineers and contributing to team growth.

• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Nice to Have:

• Experience working on payments systems, money movement, or financial integrations in Hispanic American markets.

• Familiarity with financial regulations and compliance requirements in various Hispanic American countries.

*Resumes must be submitted in English to be considered.*

What We Offer:

• Restricted stock units in a rapidly growing company

• R$26,154 - R$38,462 / monthly salary depending on experience.

• An annual self-development budget

• Flexible working model – a mix of working from home and from the office

• Relocation expenses covered

• Generous PTO package

• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

• 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us

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.

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