Credit - Senior Engineering Manager

Spend is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to help them ship their first credit cards. You’ll be joining a new team that is expanding the way Personal and Business customers can spend from their Wise Account. For the first time ever, we will be allowing businesses and personal customers to spend on credit offered by Wise. You’ll manage the core credit team within the squad who will be responsible for driving this initiative.

You will be a key driver of the teams technical roadmap and the broaden product roadmap. You’ll partner with our dedicated product manager, and the other teams across Spend and Account to help enable the issuing of credit cards internationally. You will be responsible for building the systems which allow credit decisioning, tracking borrowed credit, accruing interest, repayment flows and much more. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring that other teams will also support your vision and gaining alignment.

You will hire, lead, coach and mentor a talent group of engineers who can bring our vision to market. You will help them grow, remove blockers and allow them to execute at a velocity which balances time to market with the quality our customers have come to expect. You will have clear planning, release milestones and realistic commitments set. You’re a strong owner of your product space, and you encourage collaboration and continuous improvement within your team and neighbouring teams around you.

You have a strong background in software engineering, with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.

You have demonstrated 0 to 1 experience in your career.

You are an expert in delivering reliable and robust services in a production environment.

You are comfortable working on a complex domain and guiding a team through technical challenges.

You have experience working with distributed systems, and are as comfortable discussing technical tradeoffs as you are team direction.

Ideally some hands on experience with front end development, though not essential.

You have a strong sense of ownership and the ability to think beyond technical implementation to understand how your work impacts the business and our customers.

You are comfortable working in an autonomous environment, and can conceptualise and drive initiatives forward to completion.

Experience working closely with product and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritise the most impactful work.

Experience leading a team in a payments, fintech, or other complex, high-stakes domain.

Prior experience working on a team with a global, distributed setup.

Experience building systems that serve enterprise clients at scale.

Previous experience scaling teams and systems for global reach.

A strong foundation in distributed systems, and cloud architecture.

Impact: Your contributions will directly impact hundreds of thousands businesses that trust Wise to manage their money. The solutions you develop will play a crucial role in sustaining and accelerating Wise’s growth, ensuring that our product offering stays a step ahead of our customer's needs and global market demands.You'll be working in a highly collaborative environment with a highly skilled team while gaining exposure to several complex domains and the chance to shape and grow the team as its scope expands.

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Starting salary: £135k - £175k + RSUs

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