Join Wise as an Engineering Lead within the Spend Squad, focusing on expanding how our 700,000+ business customers use their Wise Account. You’ll be part of the Business Expense Management team, owning everything from tracking to managing expenses, creating simple experiences for a complex financial product. Your work will have a direct, measurable impact, helping business customers save time.

What You'll Do

Own a technical roadmap to ensure the application is maintained to high standards.
Lead the development of new solutions from the ground up to develop entirely new products for customers.
Serve as a technical expert for the Business Expense Management domain.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding the team on architectural design, code reviews, and best practices.
Ensure code quality, consistency, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.
Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers (junior and senior), fostering a supportive environment that promotes technical growth.
Participate in product roadmapping and strategy sessions with the product management team.
Work closely with other Engineering Leads, Staff Engineers, and Product to shape the team’s and squad’s technical roadmaps.
Help the team navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs to deliver solutions that reduce risk and unlock growth.
Act as a key representative of the team, collaborating with stakeholders across the company and leading projects from beginning to release.
Work closely with the Business squad, Spend squad and Account Squad to help define the Wise Business spending experience for customers.
Design and build robust distributed backend systems for features like receipt collection and management, expense report submission, spend policy automation, month-end process automation using LLMs, innovative business card products, and expense visibility.

What We're Looking For

A strong background in software engineering, with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.
Expert in delivering reliable and robust services in a production environment.
Comfortable working on a complex domain and guiding a team through technical challenges.
Experience working with distributed systems.
A strong sense of ownership and ability to think beyond technical implementation to understand business and customer impact.
Comfortable working autonomously and conceptualizing and driving initiatives forward to completion.
Experience working closely with product and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritize impactful work.
An empathetic leader with a track record of mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels.
Ability to lead by example, inspiring your team to produce high-quality, maintainable code.
An excellent communicator, capable of articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

Ideally some hands-on experience with front end development.
Experience leading a team in a payments, fintech, or other complex, high-stakes domain.
Prior experience working on a team with a global, distributed setup.
Experience building systems that serve enterprise clients at scale.
Previous experience scaling teams and systems for global reach.
A strong foundation in distributed systems, and cloud architecture.

Team & Environment

You will be part of the Spend Squad, specifically the Business Expense Management team. You will work closely with the Business, Spend, and Account squads.

At Wise, we’re 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.