Senior Engineering Lead - Business Onboarding
Wise · London
Company Description
- Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
- Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
- As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
- For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
About the role:
The team you will be joining: Business Onboarding team
The Business Onboarding team is dedicated to guiding businesses through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy, and delightful. You'll lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating daily with product managers, data analysts, and designers to continuously improve our onboarding flows and processes, making them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.
As the Senior Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding, you will:
Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers across multiple locations, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
Work closely with the Product Manager and your team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
Stay and remain very close to the tech and product - setting high standards for quality, and leading by example.
Own the health and productivity of the engineers in your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across Wise to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
Own the hiring, growth and development of your team and its impact at Wise.
Qualifications
What do you need?:
You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java codebase) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.
Nice to Have:
Experience building great customer onboarding experiences (domain agnostic)
Experience working on B2B products.
Fluent with modern AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) — prompting, context structuring, skills/automations, and effective AI delegation— with the ability to scale this practices across the team while maintaining a high level of quality.
Additional Information
Interested? Find out more:
Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering
What do we offer:
Starting salary: 135 - 175k + RSUs
Interested in more than one role?
If you're interested in multiple roles, please apply for just one—the one you're most excited about. If you submit multiple applications requiring the same assessment, we'll continue your recruitment journey using your first application, and any duplicate applications will be automatically closed. This helps ensure a fair and consistent interview process. If another role feels like a better fit, you can discuss this with your recruiter during the process.
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For everyone, everywhere. We're people 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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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