Senior Engineering Lead II – Send Experience

Overview

In this leadership role, you will own the Send Experience and guide two cross-functional teams to deliver a reliable, scalable international transfer journey. You will partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to shape the strategy and roadmap, balancing speed with security and long-term quality. You’ll set outcomes, remove blockers, and ensure fast, dependable delivery at global scale. You’ll lead architecture decisions, mentor Engineering Leads, and harmonize execution with Wise’s broader goals. This is a chance to shape a critical customer journey used by millions while growing a high-performing engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Define the product roadmap for Send Experience in collaboration with Product
• Translate strategy into actionable priorities and enable fast, reliable delivery
• Act as the primary technical owner for Send and lead architectural decisions
• Improve reliability, security, and operational health of services used by millions
• Grow the teams and manage Engineering Leads and engineers
• Own performance, career growth, and wellbeing of team members
• Align roadmap with Wise strategy through cross-functional collaboration

Key requirements

• Experience leading customer-facing engineering teams
• Strong backend and client engineering background
• Proven leadership experience (hiring, performance management, coaching)
• Product mindset and ability to map technical work to business value
• Strategic thinking with capability to plan long-term technical strategy
• Effective communication to non-technical partners and ability to build alignment

• leadership
• communication
• cross-functional collaboration
• backend engineering
• client engineering
• architectural decisioning

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