Company Description
Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got over 16 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.
Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.
So, we’re building a new one.
And, we need an Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.
Team you will be working with: Payin Platform
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
The Payin Platform team own the systems through which all money flows into Wise, whether that’s to top-up an account, send money across borders, or to help our customers to receive money from their customers. Payin is a critical component to the Wise money-movement machine and we’re looking for an engineer motivated to come and help us build it.
The Payin Platform is an internal API product. We make it as easy as possible for teams to start building on our platform and helping Wise customers to pay in new ways and for new features and services. From topping up a USD balance by paying in BRL with Pix, to a UK business requesting payment from a business in Hungary and allowing them to pay in HUF with a credit card. Our API product facilitates these inflows and presents a unified view of the money movement that consolidates all of these use-cases.
The team is rapidly expanding to take on more scope with the plan to become two teams in early 2026. The second team will own the recurring payin flows (variable repeat payments, direct debits, subscription payments).
Qualifications
What does it take?
A leadership track record showing you can grow teams and expand products in order to navigate to ongoing expansion and upcoming team split.
A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the prioritise building right things, in the right way
Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation.. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested
Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus
…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!
Additional Information
What does success look like?
You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how your team contributes
You’ll be working with the engineers on your team and helping them to align their professional goals with the team’s
You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities
What do we offer:
Key benefits:
Flexible working - whether it’s working from home, school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and you’re trusted to do the right thing and be responsible
Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities
6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave
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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