Senior Engineering Lead - Account Management

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.

We’re hiring an experienced Engineering Lead to join Account Management (Hold) – the team that enables customers to hold, manage and organise money across Current, Savings and Child accounts.

Our mission is to make Wise the best everyday banking solution for international customers by increasing hold volume, account adoption and long‑term retention. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you’ll guide engineers, own the team’s technical direction, and be accountable for the reliability, scalability and correctness of core account systems. You’ll work closely with Product, Design and Analytics to deliver cross‑functional initiatives, and you should be comfortable making high‑impact architectural decisions and getting into the details when needed.

• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs (hold volume, account adoption, etc.).
• Lead and coach engineers; own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.
• Actively contribute to the codebase: ship changes, review designs and unblock technical work when needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve the Account product, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term technical health.
• Work with Wise Platform, Finance and other squads to enable new financial products built on the Account platform.
• Set and own the team’s technical direction, driving architecture and design decisions for globally scalable account systems.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:
We know candidates won’t have every skill listed — if you have several of the bulleted skills and are keen to learn the rest, we want to hear from you.

• Technical leadership & system design expertise: strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems, event‑based architectures and microservices; able to make high‑impact architectural decisions.
• Comfortable owning reliability, scalability and correctness for systems that process customer balances and money flows.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams and growing senior ICs.

• Leadership through empowerment: build autonomous teams by providing context, trust and clear direction (not micromanaging).
• Product mindset: you prioritise customer impact and business outcomes, not just technical implementation.
• Clear communicator: able to explain technical concepts to engineers and non‑technical stakeholders and align cross‑functional partners.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity: able to move quickly while maintaining quality and compliance.

• Experience in fintech or high‑volume transactional environments (payments, banking or similar).
• Experience designing and optimising databases and data models for high throughput and correctness.
• Experience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).