Senior Engineering Lead - Business Onboarding

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

• The Business Onboarding team is dedicated to guiding businesses through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way that's clear, easy, and delightful.
• You'll lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating daily with product managers, data analysts, and designers to continuously improve our onboarding flows and processes, making them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.
• As the Senior Engineering Lead for Business Onboarding, you will:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers across multiple locations, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
• Work closely with the Product Manager and your team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
• Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
• Stay and remain very close to the tech and product - setting high standards for quality, and leading by example.
• Own the health and productivity of the engineers in your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across Wise to ensure your team's work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
• Own the hiring, growth and development of your team and its impact at Wise.

Qualifications

What do you need?:

• You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java codebase) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
• You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers. You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
• You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
• You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
• You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.

Nice to Have

• Experience building great customer onboarding experiences (domain agnostic)
• Experience working on B2B products.
• Fluent with modern AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) — prompting, context structuring, skills/automations, and effective AI delegation— with the ability to scale this practices across the team while maintaining a high level of quality.

Additional Information

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

• Interested in more than one role?
• If you're interested in multiple roles, please apply for just one—the one you're most excited about.
• If you submit multiple applications requiring the same assessment, we'll continue your recruitment journey using your first application, and any duplicate applications will be automatically closed.
• This helps ensure a fair and consistent interview process.
• If another role feels like a better fit, you can discuss this with your recruiter during the process.

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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 .
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