What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and coach engineers, manage hiring, mentoring, and performance to enhance technical capability and delivery impact.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that drive key performance indicators.
• Guide architecture and technical design decisions to build scalable global systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support bank integrations and expand the payment network.
• Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practice adoption.
• Maintain a hands-on approach by deeply understanding and contributing to team systems as needed.
• Identify opportunities for product improvement, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.
• Provide insights and share learnings within the broader Wise Platform squad to shape company-wide software development.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams and developing senior individual contributors.
• Strong technical leadership and system design expertise, including scalable distributed systems, event-based architectures, and microservices.
• Product mindset with focus on customer impact beyond technical implementation.
• Leadership style based on empowerment, providing context, trust, and clear direction.
• Commitment to best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews.
• Strong communication skills to clearly explain technical concepts across teams and stakeholders.
• Bias toward action and comfort working in ambiguous environments while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Experience with JVM platform technologies such as Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot.