Credit - Senior Engineering Manager

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

How we work

At Wise, our powerful spending infrastructure has allowed customers to spend their funds anywhere in the world with ease. Now, for the first time we will be allowing our customers to spend on a fair and transparent credit card. We are building an international credit program for our personal and business customers.

We need an Engineering Manager who can join us to build out the first credit offering from Wise and ensure we can build a transparent, reliable and trustworthy system that complies to local regulations around the world and serves our global market.

As the engineering lead, you will work with product, and begin to build our roadmaps, hire teams and develop this greenfields initiative. You will mentor engineers, and help define the product and team's missions to build out high performance teams, and an exceptional product.

What will you be working on?

Spend is looking for an Engineering Manager to help them ship their first credit cards. You’ll be joining a new team that is expanding the way Personal and Business customers can spend from their Wise Account. For the first time ever, we will be allowing businesses and personal customers to spend on credit offered by Wise. You’ll manage the core credit team within the squad who will be responsible for driving this initiative.

What will you be doing?

You will be a key driver of the teams technical roadmap and the broaden product roadmap. You’ll partner with our dedicated product manager, and the other teams across Spend and Account to help enable the issuing of credit cards internationally.

You will be responsible for building the systems which allow credit decisioning, tracking borrowed credit, accruing interest, repayment flows and much more. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring that other teams will also support your vision and gaining alignment.

You will hire, lead, coach and mentor a talent group of engineers who can bring our vision to market. You will help them grow, remove blockers and allow them to execute at a velocity which balances time to market with the quality our customers have come to expect. You will have clear planning, release milestones and realistic commitments set. You are a strong owner of your product space, and you encourage collaboration and continuous improvement within your team and neighbouring teams around you.

• Owning a technical roadmap to ensure that our product is maintained to high standards.
• Lead the development of new solutions. Drive initiatives from the ground up to develop entirely new products for our customers.
• Serve as a technical expert for the broader credit domain.
• Build with the future in mind, what we build today can be a platform for other products tomorrow.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership, guiding the team on architectural design, code reviews, and best practices.
• Ensuring code quality, consistency, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers (junior and senior), fostering a supportive environment that promotes technical growth.
• Participate and drive product road mapping and strategy sessions with the product management team.
• Work closely with other Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Product to shape the team’s and squad’s technical roadmaps.
• Help the team navigate complex priorities and make trade‑offs to deliver solutions that reduce risk and unlock growth.
• Act as a key representative of the team, collaborating with stakeholders across the company and leading projects from the beginning till the release.