About the Role
You will own the Send journey end to end and directly shape the experience at a global scale. This is a product and engineering leadership role where you will shape strategy and roadmap, identify customer problems, and decide how to solve them. You will also set the technical direction, balancing execution speed with quality, security, and long-term scale. You will lead two teams through Engineering Leads, coaching them and helping their teams deliver customer value at pace.
Responsibilities
- Defining the product roadmap by deciding what to build next, balancing speed, security, and long-term scale.
- Turning strategy into execution by setting clear outcomes, priorities, and ownership, removing blockers, and enabling fast, reliable delivery.
- Acting as the primary technical owner for Send, leading architectural decisions and addressing technical debt.
- Improving reliability, security, and operational health, ensuring proactive management of services.
- Scaling the group by starting with two cross-functional teams and expecting to grow further.
- Owning the performance, career growth, and wellbeing of Engineering Leads, while remaining accountable for the engineers they lead.
- Working with Global Product, Regional, and other functions to align the roadmap with the wider Wise strategy.
- Helping teams navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk.
Requirements
- Experience leading customer-facing engineering teams that build apps or websites.
- Strong technical background with experience in backend and client engineering.
- Leadership experience, including hiring, performance management, and coaching high-performing teams.
- Product mindset, mapping technical efforts to business goals and customer value.
- Strategic thinking ability, switching between code review and long-term technical strategy planning.
- Communication skills to explain complex technical decisions to non-technical partners, challenge constructively, and build alignment.
Skills
- AI Assistants
- Payments
- Fintech
- Global regulated product environment
- High-throughput APIs
- Enterprise clients
- Platform clients
- Scaling a domain
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- GBP 135000 - GBP 175000
About the Company
- Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money with minimal fees and maximum ease.
- We are on a mission to make people's and businesses' lives easier and save them money when sending money internationally, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments.
- We are creating an entirely new network for the world's money for everyone, everywhere.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
