Engineering Lead - Ptech - HRIS - Growth Team

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 .

Job Description

About the role

• This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation that empowers Wise employees to achieve our mission.
• As the Engineering Lead (EL1) for our People Technology Growth team, you will move beyond managing isolated SaaS tools to own the end-to-end digital employee experience - spanning from attraction to offboarding.
• The Growth team operates with a product mindset to improve internal customer satisfaction and tool adoption.
• You will lead a globally distributed team of engineers across hubs like London, Singapore, and Austin, ensuring high-performing execution, technical reliability, and an exceptional user experience for all Wisers.

Why you should join us:

• Scale & Impact: You'll be responsible for systems and journeys that support thousands of global employees in a fast-growing, publicly-traded fintech.
• Autonomy: We don't do micro-management. As an EL1, you will own the technical roadmap for your team, deciding how to build scalable solutions for our internal product domain.
• Product-Minded Engineering: You will shift the paradigm from reactive IT ticket-solving to modern platform engineering, building a cohesive employee 'Journey Layer'.
• Mission-Driven Culture: Join a company that values transparency, 'customer first' (even internal customers), and getting it done. We empower teams to make decisions and take ownership.

How we work:

We empower teams to make decisions and take ownership. We value clear outcomes, strong cross-functional partnerships and measurable impact. Read more about how we work here .

What will you be working on?

Technical & Product Ownership:

• Own the Technical Roadmap: Drive the technical roadmap for the People Tech Growth team, actively identifying and addressing technical debt, reliability, security, and scalability concerns.
• Deliver the Journey Layer: Ensure the team shifts from purely maintaining SaaS configurations to supporting end-to-end employee journeys with genuine engineering rigor.
• Maintain Product Quality: Hold a high standard for the quality of the products you own, deeply caring about the internal customer experience.
• Day-to-day Execution: Act as an active contributor to the delivery of your team by supporting daily execution, managing incident resolution, and establishing appropriate support SLAs and documentation.
• Standardise Engineering Rituals: Implement a 'Think, Build, Fix' framework using Jira Product Discovery (JPD) for ideation, Jira Software for planned builds, and consistent bi-weekly agile sprint cadences.

Leadership & People Management:

• Manage & Coach: Take direct line-management responsibility for a global team of engineers (spanning IC1 to IC3 levels). Manage their performance, growth, and well-being through active coaching and feedback.
• Cultivate Culture: Foster an egoless culture of strong ownership, inclusivity, and open two-way feedback where every engineer is accountable for their outcomes.
• Hiring & Onboarding: Actively participate in the interview panel to grow the team, following best practices and ensuring the successful onboarding of new hires.
• Team Balance: Ensure the team's composition is balanced and sized correctly to hit short-term delivery goals and long-term strategic plans.

What do you need?:

• Engineering Leadership: Experience managing or leading engineering teams, with a proven track record of coaching talent, conducting performance reviews, and building high-performing cultures.
• Domain Expertise: Good experience within the HR Tech ecosystem or employee experience platforms (e.g. recruitment tools, onboarding systems, core HRIS systems).
• Technical Background: Strong engineering foundation with experience delivering technical roadmaps and making sound architectural/integration decisions (APIs, data mapping, automated workflows).
• Value-Driven & Collaboration: Strong communication skills with an ability to collaborate across functions (Product, Design etc) to challenge opinions in an egoless manner and align technical capabilities to the product roadmap.
• Structured execution: Ability to bring structure to complex environments, coaching the team through a new way of working to align with the engineering practices of the wider Platform tribe.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a cross-functional, globally distributed team.
• Strong understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Background in turning traditional IT support/service processes into automated, self-service platform products.

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting

• Wise Benefits

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Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs .
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram .