Engineering Lead – Account Management

Overview

As Engineering Lead for the Account Management team, you will guide the architecture and delivery of the current account and everyday banking experience. You’ll bridge engineering, product, and design to ship customer-facing features while maintaining reliability and growth. You’ll lead and develop engineers across backend, web, and mobile, shaping a technical roadmap and collaborating across interfaces like Account Sharing, Send, and Wise Platform. This role combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership to make Wise the everyday account customers reach for.

Pay / Benefits

• RSUs
• hybrid work
• Wise Benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team of engineers, focusing on delivery and people development
• Hands-on coding, design reviews, PRs, and feature delivery across backend, web, and mobile
• Own the team’s technical roadmap, manage reliability, scalability, and debt
• Provide clear feedback to PM and Design on what to build and why
• Collaborate across boundaries with related teams (Account Sharing, Send, Wise Platform)
• Make sound architectural calls and unblock the team when necessary

Key requirements

• Strong backend engineering background with close code involvement
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices
• Proven track record of reliability and scalability in critical systems
• Comfort with JVM stack (Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot) or ability to learn quickly
• Experience leading an engineering team and delivering through others
• Clear communicator able to argue technically and explain to non-engineers

• Product mindset with focus on customer and business impact
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity
• Trust-based leadership and mentorship
• Distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures
• Microservices

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