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 the 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 company-wide software development.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams and growing senior individual contributors.
• Technical leadership and system design expertise, including scalable distributed systems, event-based architectures, and microservices.
• Product mindset focusing on customer impact.
• Leadership through empowerment with context, trust, and clear direction.
• Advocacy of 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, maintaining quality and compliance while moving quickly.
• Experience with JVM platform technologies such as Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot.