Wise

Engineering Lead - Embedded Solutions

London, United Kingdom · On-site · Full-time

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EmployerWise
LocationLondon, EC2A 4JE, United Kingdom
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted16 days ago

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance team. Our mission is to build the world's best embedded finance platform for our partners. You’ll be working closely with multiple functions within our vertical from solutions engineering and business development to understand the pain points of some of the largest enterprises in the world. Together you’ll help partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp and Agoda, leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world class embedded finance products through their own channels. This will help us transform the international payments experience for even more customers and have a significant impact on Wise’s mission.

This is a hands-on engineering lead role that will support the engineers in their growth and driving technical decisions in building reliable, scalable products. You will be working closely with a product manager in developing a long term vision and roadmap for the team and their domain.

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What will you be working on?

This is a hands-on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.

Mentoring and supporting a small team of engineers in their growth and development.

Support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high quality product that is reliable and scalable.

Working closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and product plans.

Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver real impact and expand the functionality we can offer to our partners on our platform.

Ownership of the team’s services and product. Pushing best practices and high quality products.

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!

Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Strong hands-on experience of Java (or similar stacks).

Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.

Product mindset — you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.

Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases.

Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.

Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Interested? Find out more:

The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 Edition.

Wise Engineering

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What do we offer:

Starting salary: £105,000-£135,000 base + RSU's

Wise Benefits

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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