Engineering Lead - Payout Core

Responsibilities

• You'll be joining Wise as an Engineering Lead for Payout Core, with both tech lead and people manager responsibilities:
• Across both: you will drive the payout domain vision, align stakeholders across the organization, and represent the team in cross-team architectural discussions - both reviewing and producing RFCs for decisions that affect the payout domain.
• What we offer you
• High-impact, high-visibility work: every outgoing payment at Wise flows through the systems this team owns. The technical decisions made here shape how Wise delivers money - to every recipient, across every product.
• A team of experienced engineers with years of context in the payout domain, motivated to push it forward as a dedicated unit.
• Shape a newly formed team as it becomes an independent unit - with strong existing foundations to build from, define the practices, ways of working, and technical identity of the team, within a culture of empowered teams.
• A long-term vision that's ambitious and still being defined - optimizing how we route payments across partners, building a product-agnostic payout platform - with the space for the team to define how to get there.
• A role that grows with the domain - as the payout platform evolves, so will the team's scope and yours with it.
• You won't be doing this alone - you'll have a team with deep domain expertise beside you, and direct support from engineering leadership across the organization as you shape the team's direction.
• We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills listed below, and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of these and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you.
• You have experience as a tech lead or engineering manager, with a proven track record of guiding and developing engineers, fostering their growth, and building high-performing, autonomous teams.
• You have a strong product mindset, consistently prioritizing customer needs and making data-driven decisions. You understand why something is being built, what customer problem it solves, and what the expected impact is.
• You demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, have excellent communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. You can drive cross-team projects and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• You have the ability to own and articulate a technical vision and turn it into a concrete roadmap.
• You have extensive experience with Java or Kotlin, including proficiency with the Spring framework and understanding of microservice best practices.
• You are skilled in working with relational databases, including query optimization and designing robust schemas.
• You are a strong advocate for best coding practices, enjoy writing testable code, and actively participate in code reviews and open feedback.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity - this is a new team with a lot to define and shape.
• Ultimately, you're someone who gets things done and consistently delivers results.

Requirements

• You have experience with pa

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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