• Lead the Account Details Experience team on a mission to make Wise the first account people think of when they need to receive money internationally.
• Own Wise's Account Details — helping customers discover, obtain, and use local account details to receive payments, salaries, freelance income, marketplace payouts, and more.
• Lead a team of backend and web engineers, mentor and grow people, and work closely with Product to shape what gets built next on a platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers worldwide.
• Work hybrid from Wise's London office, joining the team's 24/7 on-call rotation every 6–10 weeks.
📋 Job Requirements
• Have experience leading teams and expanding products to navigate ongoing growth.
• Have a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritising work with customers in mind and making data-driven decisions.
• Communicate effectively and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Lead and inspire a team of engineers to prioritise building the right things in the right way.
• Deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating efforts across the organisation through cross-team collaboration.
• Break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value.
• Have experience developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment.
• Have experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean, performant, and well-tested code.
• Show curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement.
• Follow and advocate best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews.
• Be part of the on-call rotation for critical services every 6–10 weeks.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design.
• Bring knowledge of Java and Spring Boot.
• Have experience with a messaging system such as Kafka.
• Bring prior experience in payments, fintech, or international money movement products.
• Have experience building receive-side payment products or alias-based payment systems.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Lead a team of backend and web engineers, mentoring and growing people.
• Work closely with Product to shape what gets built next and build the roadmap for the next 2 quarters together with the PM.
• Build out the receive-to-alias experience and platform, enabling customers to receive money using identifiers like email addresses and phone numbers.
• Make account details easier to discover and use, localise the experience in key markets, build trust that receiving is reliable and safe, and scale the platform efficiently for future growth.
• Evolve a critical Wise platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers around the world.
• Participate in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation and help the team improve it.
We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.
😃 What Wise offers
• Earn £105,000–£135,000 plus RSUs.
• Lead a team building the platform that powers how millions of customers receive money internationally.
• Shape the product roadmap and technical direction for a critical part of Wise's global infrastructure.
• Join a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
💖 What makes Wise unique
Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money. 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. The Account Details Experience team is part of the Global Product tribe, dedicated to enabling customers to receive money seamlessly and efficiently into their Wise accounts across international markets.
💬 What employees say
"Wise is a great Company, with a great culture and great transparency. It lives up to the mission of fast, cheap, high-quality currency transfers; I personally like the good vibes here with a lot of passion."
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