SeniorEngineeringLeadII-ContactsTeam

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). The team you will join: Contacts The Contacts team is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to Wise’s day-to-day operations — if our services go down, Wise goes down. What will you be working on: * Reimagining the contacts domain. We need to fundamentally rethink how we model people, businesses, and bank accounts. You and your team own the architecture for this: it’s a complex distributed systems challenge that touches everything: bank accounts, local payment networks, and the next generation of Wise features. * Scaling for Wise Platform: This isn't just for the Wise app. Big banks and enterprises use our API, which means our search and validation engines need to be lightning-fast and bulletproof, even when our biggest partners turn on the tap. * Defining the product roadmap: You’re not here to just churn through a backlog. You’ll work side-by-side with your Product Manager to figure out what we build next. You’ll be the one making the tough calls between shipping fast, staying secure, and building for the long term. * G