Engineering Lead – Account Details Experience

Overview

As Engineering Lead, you will guide a backend and web engineering team within the Account Details Experience area, shaping the roadmap and delivering scalable receiving and alias features for millions of users. You’ll mentor engineers, partner with Product, and ensure reliable, secure, localised experiences across markets. You will also contribute to on-call reliability for critical services and drive cross-team collaboration to deliver customer value. This role offers impact at scale in a mission-driven fintech environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 105k – 135k salary + RSUs
• Wise Benefits
• Hybrid work
• On-call rotation
• Career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of backend and web engineers
• Collaborate with Product to shape the roadmap for the next two quarters
• Build and evolve the receive-to-alias experience and platform
• Coordinate work across multiple teams and cross-functional partners
• Contribute to on-call rotation and improve critical service reliability
• Champion user-centric design, data-driven decisions, and clean, well-tested code

Key requirements

• Experience leading teams and expanding products to support growth
• Strong product mindset with focus on user experience and data-driven decisions
• Excellent communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to deliver across teams and coordinate effectively
• Experience building web applications and distributed systems in production
• Knowledge of design/architectural patterns and commitment to clean, performant code
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases; familiarity with Java and Spring Boot and Kafka is a plus
• Willingness to join on-call rotation every 6–10 weeks

• Customer-focused
• Strong communicator
• Collaborative mindset
• Web applications
• Distributed systems
• Relational databases

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