Engineering Lead - Cards Pay-in

Wise

Wise

London, UK
Posted on Mar 22, 2024

Company 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 life 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.


Job Description

The team you will be working with: Cards Payin team

The Cards Payin team is responsible for some of the most critical services at Wise - we currently ensure more than a billion pounds in card payments is processed safely each month for customers who send, add money, or receive with Wise.Cards is a convenient, safe, and familiar payment method with global reach. It's our job to curate this payment flow, making it the best it can be for our customers. We own the whole Card Payin process, from the experience where customers input their card details, to the payment authorisation and fraud checks, to eventual settlement and reconciliation.
We’re on a mission to accept all genuine card payments first time from anyone using Wise’s payment products, and charge the lowest price possible. Come join us in this exciting journey of building the best payment experience ever for customers!

As an engineering lead, you will be responsible for the quality of your team’s technical solutions, including code quality, architecture applicability, performance, reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards.

As a people manager, you will be responsible for your team's productivity, goal setting, career path identification, mentoring and supporting people in your team.

Our main challenges are:

  • Building to the scale of one of the most used payment methods at Wise
  • Designing successful abstractions that can sit across the global nature of card payments
  • Providing our customers with the best payment experience possible and balancing that against reducing our exposure to fraudulent payments

What does it take?

  • Experience working with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservices architecture – this is essential
  • Experience leading, coaching and mentoring high performing teams, building development plans and setting personal goals for engineers in your teams
  • Comfortable working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
  • Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems
  • Comfortable with SQL databases, optimisation and transaction
  • A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems

What does success look like?

  • You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and suggesting future challenges
  • You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
  • You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
  • You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued
  • You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money product that impacts millions of customers

Additional Information

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.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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