What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and coach engineers, own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs.
• Guide architecture and technical design decisions, ensuring we build systems that scale globally.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support bank integrations and expand our payment network.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring and adoption of best practices.
• Understand and contribute to team systems deeply enough to be hands-on when needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve the Send product, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.
• Have an overview of the broader Wise Platform squad, sharing learnings and shaping how we build software company-wide.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams and growing senior engineers.
• Technical leadership & system design expertise: strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems, event-based architectures and microservices; able to make high-impact architectural decisions.
• Product mindset — think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Leadership through empowerment by providing context, trust and clear direction.
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity — able to move quickly while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Experience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).