About Wise

Wise is one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 13 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

So, we’re building a new one.

And, we need a talented Engineering Tech Lead to join our mission.

The opportunity and your team

The Fintech market in the Middle East and Africa is expected to hit $3.45 billion by 2026 and regulators have just begun to implement policies to encourage growth.

Open banking, digital wallets, cryptocurrency and APIs are reshaping the region’s financial infrastructure. But when you try to send, receive, spend or invest between different currencies the cracks start to appear. It’s slow and expensive, and not transparent.

Our team has a huge opportunity to make a difference in the region by helping people and businesses save time and money. You’ll own some of the biggest remittance corridors in the world and you’ll be responsible for enabling all of Wise’s products in MEA. It’s a recently assembled team, with a mix of new joiners and senior engineers, with a clear and impactful roadmap.

You will be involved in the development cycle and lead from the front. Most of our leads spend 30 to 50% of their time coding. You and your team will plan autonomously and decide what to take on and how things should be done. The only ask is that your goals are aligned with our mission, ambitious and achievable. You’ll get coaching from your manager as you grow into a leader here.

What kind of work does the team do?

Our team works closely with local partners and government institutions to bring Wise’s mission to the region.

We integrate with local payment systems to reduce transfers from days to seconds. We implement AML and KYC requirements to help fight financial crime while making things convenient for our customers.

We modify and extend Wise’s internal systems to accommodate regional requirements. Those modifications are done with scale in mind and making sure we allow other regions to benefit from the extension/modification. 

This team works mostly on backend codebases.

Your role in the team

• You’ll be responsible for the overall health and productivity of the engineers within your team. You will help your engineers grow.
• Drive the team to take ambitious, yet achievable goals
• You will lead from the front. When needed you will implement some of the features planned by your team
• You’ll review designs and pull requests providing feedback and helping teams make decisions
• When a project is blocked you will intervene by either mentoring/coaching your engineers to overcome the obstacle or by removing the blocker yourself
• You’ll have an overview of what’s happening across the tribe and seize opportunities to build solutions that can be reused by other teams

Minimum requirements

• Experience leading, coaching and mentoring driven and high performing teams
• Able to communicate technical concepts in simple terms to different audiences
• Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems
• Experience working with microservices and asynchronous message queues
• Comfortable with SQL databases, optimisation and transaction
• A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems

Nice to have

• Experience with Java and Spring framework
• Experience in the MEA market (or other developing market)

 What you get back

• The opportunity to have a real impact
• The ability to choose your path to success – you’ll have the freedom to define the vision, goals and processes for your team
• Lots of career goal opportunities: Constant interesting challenges in a fast growing company
• In house lead training + coaching and care from your manager
• Benefits of the London office