{"id":1254561,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-engineering-lead-ii-send-experience-2","title":"Senior Engineering Lead II - Send Experience","company":{"id":3856,"name":"Wise","domain":"wise.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/wise","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":30,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":135000,"max":175000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":231590},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T11:42:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T23:39:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.\nMin fees. Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n The team you will join: Send Experience\nSend Experience sits at the heart of every transfer on Wise. It’s where new customers make their first international transfer, where people send money home every month, and where customers using Wise as a primary account move money every day.\nOur teams make first transfers simple, with our AI Assistant there to guide customers. We make everyday transfers smart, fast, and effortless, while adding new capabilities to our international account.\nMore than 15 million customers send money through us every month. You’ll own the Send journey end to end and directly shape the experience at global scale.\nThis is a product and engineering leadership role. With Product, Design and Analytics, you’ll shape the strategy and roadmap, identify the customer problems that matter most, and decide how to solve them. You’ll also set the technical direction and balance execution speed with quality, security, and long-term scale.\nYou’ll initially lead two teams, with scope to grow the group further.\nWhat will you be working on:\nDefining the product roadmap: You’ll work side-by-side with Product to decide what we build next. You’ll be making the calls between speed, security, and long-term scale.\n\nTurning strategy into execution: You’ll set clear outcomes, priorities and ownership, remove blockers and enable fast, reliable delivery without teams depending on you for every decision.\n\nTechnical responsibilities:\nTechnical authority: You’ll act as the primary technical owner for Send, with the senior-level technical depth to lead architectural decisions and address technical debt.\n\nOperational excellence: You’ll improve reliability, security, and operational health, ensuring the teams proactively manage the services that millions of customers rely on.\n\nLeadership responsibilities:\nGrowing the teams: You will start with two cross-functional, high-output teams with the expectation to scale the group further.\n\nPeople development: You’ll own the performance, career growth, and wellbeing of your Engineering Leads, while remaining accountable for the engineers they lead.\n\nCross-functional alignment: You’ll work closely with Global Product, Regional, and other functions to align our roadmap with the wider Wise strategy. You’ll help the teams navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk.\n\nWhat do you need?\nExperience leading customer-facing engineering: You’ve led teams building apps or websites that make complex problems feel simple.\n\nStrong technical background: Experience with backend and client engineering. You understand the difference between \"working code\" and \"scalable architecture.\"\n\nLeadership experience: You have led high-performing teams (hiring, performance management, coaching). You know how to scale your impact through strong Engineering Leads and senior engineers.\n\nProduct mindset: You understand the \"why\" behind the \"what.\" You can map technical efforts directly to business goals and customer value.\n\nStrategic thinking: You can switch between reviewing a Pull Request and planning the 12-month technical strategy for a critical business domain.\n\nCommunication: You explain complex technical decisions to non-technical partners, challenge constructively, and build alignment.\n\nNice to have:\nExperience building AI Assistants or other AI-powered experiences\n\nExperience in payments, fintech, or another global regulated product environment\n\nExperience building high-throughput APIs for enterprise or platform clients\n\nExperience scaling a domain from one team into a multi-team organisation\n\nSend is one of Wise’s most important customer journeys. If you want to shape a journey used by millions and grow great leaders, we’d love to hear from you.\n Interested? Find out more:\nHow we work - a practical guide\n\nDEI @ Wise\n\nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\n\nSee what it's like to work at Wise London!\n\nOur Engineering career map\n\nWise Engineering -https://medium.com/wise-engineering\n\nFor 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.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive 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.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5081,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T18:49:01Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.626,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":231590,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-engineering-lead-ii-send-experience-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-engineering-lead-ii-send-experience-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:23:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1627,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3373,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}