What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and coach engineers, managing hiring, mentoring, and performance to enhance technical capability and delivery impact.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that drive key performance indicators (KPIs).
• 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.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and the adoption of best practices.
• Be hands-on when needed by deeply understanding and contributing to team systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve the Send product, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.
• Maintain an overview of the broader Wise Platform squad, share learnings, and shape 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 strong knowledge of scalable, distributed systems, event-based architectures, and microservices.
• Ability to make high-impact architectural decisions.
• Product mindset focused on customer impact beyond technical implementation.
• Leadership through empowerment by providing context, trust, and clear direction.
• Advocacy for 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 technologies such as Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot.