Wise

Global technology

EngineeringLeadGetPaidFormats

$105–135k London, United Kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“Engineering Lead - GetPaid Formats at Wise. Skills: Team leadership, Product development, Web application development, Distributed systems development, Cross-team collaboration. Set up the team direction with product. Set up the team vision with engineers”

What You'll Achieve.

Building a high performance team; Making Wise’ offering for getting paid one of the best in the industry; Deliver customer value

Industry & Context.

Global technology
Problems you'll solve

Make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

Eligibility Requirements

Being part of the on-call rotation for our critical services and helping the team improve it, normally being on-call every 6-10 weeks.

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience leading teams and expand products in order to navigate to ongoing expansion., A 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., 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, Being part of the on-call rotation for our critical services and helping the team improve it, normally being on-call every 6-10 weeks.

Nice to Have

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

What You'll Do.

Set up the team direction with product

Set up the team vision with engineers

Mentor and grow engineers

Build new ways of getting paid

Improve existing ways of getting paid

Develop Invoice and payment link tools

Develop new ways of getting paid such as subscriptions and in-person

Enable products in more regions

Deliver work across multiple teams

Break down complex projects into incremental milestones

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with product; Work with engineers; Deliver work across multiple teams; Coordinating efforts across the organisation; Cross-team collaboration

Communication Scope

Great communication skills; Ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Process & Methodology

Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value

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