Engineering Lead - Send for Partners

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make international money transfers easier and more affordable. As an Engineering Lead for the Send for Partners team, you will guide engineers, drive technical decision-making, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to expand our payment network. This hands-on leadership role requires a strong background in scalable, distributed systems and a product mindset.

Lead and coach engineers, own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.

About Wise

• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit [](https://www.wise.jobs/).
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1769571/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wisecareers/).
• 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.
• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit [](https://www.wise.jobs/).
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1769571/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wisecareers/).

Responsibilities

• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs and guide architecture and technical design decisions.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring and adoption of best practices, and identify opportunities to improve the Send product.
• Leadership through empowerment by providing context, trust and clear direction

Requirements

• We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams and growing senior ICs.
• Technical leadership & system design expertise: strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems, event-based architectures and microservices; able to make high-impact architectural decisions.
• Product mindset — you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity — able to move quickly while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Experience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).

Pay

GBP 105,000 - 135,000

Benefits

Starting salary: £106,000 - £135,000 + RSUs

• [Wise Benefits](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer)
• 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.
• 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.

Interested? Find out more

• [How we work - a practical guide](https://wise.jobs/how-we-work)
• [DEI @ Wise](https://wise.jobs/diversity-equity-and-inclusion)
• [Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)](https://medium.com/wise-engineering/wise-tech-stack-2025-update-d0e63fe718c7)
• [See what it’s like to work at Wise London](http://youtube.com/watch?v=XNMeFMoqBEA&feature=youtu.be)
• [Our engineering career map](https://wise.jobs/engineering-career-map)