Wise

Financial Services

EngineeringLead-PayoutCore

€7–8k Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“Engineering Lead - Payout Core at Wise. Skills: Payout domain, Technical direction, People management. Own payout domain technical roadmap. Evolve domain architecture”

What You'll Achieve.

Understand team and domain; Understand Payout Core integration; Build trust with engineers; Identify engineer strengths; Identify engineer growth areas; Shape technical direction; Make team decisions; Make stakeholder decisions; Scale up payout platform; Build world-class payout platform; Solve technical challenges; Identify technical opportunities

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience as tech lead, Experience as engineering manager, Extensive experience with Java, Extensive experience with Kotlin, Proficiency with Spring framework, Understanding of microservice best practices, Skilled in working with relational databases, Query optimization, Designing robust schemas, Advocate for best coding practices, Writing testable code, Participate in code reviews, Open feedback, Comfortable operating in ambiguity

Nice to Have

Experience with payments, Experience with financial infrastructure, Experience building highly reliable systems, Experience building highly available systems, Experience in high-traffic environments

What You'll Do.

Own payout domain technical roadmap

Evolve domain architecture

Design next generation smart routing

Build product scalable

Build product sustainable

Contribute directly to delivery

Manage team productivity

Identify career paths

Support engineer growth

Determine team hiring needs

Nurture team ways of working

Drive payout domain vision

Represent team in discussions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team architectural discussions; Stakeholder alignment

Communication Scope

Articulate complex technical concepts; Non-technical audiences

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job 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](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). And we need a talented Engineering Lead to join our mission. The team you'll be working with : Payout Core Whenever Wise needs to deliver money — whether through a customer transfer, a business payout, or an internal operational flow — the payout domain is responsible to make this happen. It receives a request: "pay this amount to this recipient," and figures out the how: which partner integration to use, considering availability, bank holidays, and operational windows. It then coordinates the execution, handles retries when things go wrong, and provides the delivery time estimates customers see. Every outgoing payment at Wise flows through the systems this team owns. Payout Core is a newly formed team, dedicated to owning and evolving this domain. We're building the team from the ground up, and we need an Engineering Lead to shape its technical direction, lead its engineers, and drive an ambitious long-term vision: making the payout domain a product-agnostic platform that any team at Wise can use to send money out. What you'll do You'll be joining Wise as an Engineering Lead for Payout Core, with both tech lead and people manager responsibilities: As a tech lead, you will be responsible for the quality of your team's technical solutions, including code quality, architecture, performance, reliability, and adherence to company-wide engineering standards. You will own the payout domain's technical roadmap — from e

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