Engineering Lead - Account Management

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering background, close to the code to guide senior engineers through hard problems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and microservices, and comfort making high-impact architectural decisions.
• Track record of owning the reliability, scalability and correctness of critical systems at scale.
• Comfortable in a JVM codebase, or confident you'll get there fast - we're on Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.
• Experience leading a team of engineers and owning what they deliver.
• Leadership through trust: you give people context and direction and let them own their work.
• A clear communicator who can hold a technical argument with engineers and explain it plainly to everyone else.
• A product engineer’s mindset - you measure your work by customer and business impact.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity: you move quickly without dropping quality.

Nice to have

• You use AI to build faster, and you're curious where it's heading.
• You've worked in fintech, payments or banking.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the team's engineers - own what they ship and their well-being, and build a clear view of how to grow each of them.
• Stay hands-on: write code, review designs and PRs, and drive whole features across backend, web and mobile, coordinating delivery across all three.
• Own the team's technical roadmap. Decide how the systems evolve, keep reliability and tech-debt risk in check, and make the architectural calls that matter.
• Partner with your PM and Design, and give sharp feedback on what's worth building and why.
• Work across boundaries with the teams we build alongside: Account Sharing on joint accounts, Send on how money moves in and out, Wise Platform on products they build on top of account.