Wise

Senior Engineering Lead - Business Onboarding

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

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EmployerWise
LocationLondon, EC2A 4JE, United Kingdom
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted1 month ago

About the role:

The team you will be joining: Business Onboarding team

The Business Onboarding team is dedicated to guiding businesses through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy, and delightful. You'll lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating daily with product managers, data analysts, and designers to continuously improve our onboarding flows and processes, making them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.

As the Senior Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding, you will:

Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers across multiple locations, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.

Work closely with the Product Manager and your team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.

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Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.

Stay and remain very close to the tech and product - setting high standards for quality, and leading by example.

Own the health and productivity of the engineers in your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across Wise to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.

Own the hiring, growth and development of your team and its impact at Wise.

What do you need?:

You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java codebase) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.

You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.

You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.

You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures

You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.

Nice to Have:

Experience building great customer onboarding experiences (domain agnostic)

Experience working on B2B products.

Fluent with modern AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) — prompting, context structuring, skills/automations, and effective AI delegation— with the ability to scale this practices across the team while maintaining a high level of quality.

Interested? Find out more:

How we work – a practical guide

DEI @ Wise

Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

See what it's like to work at Wise London!

Our Engineering career map

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

What do we offer:

Starting salary: 135 - 175k + RSUs

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