Senior Engineering Lead - Generative AI Platform

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make international money transfers easier and more affordable. As a Senior Engineering Lead in our Generative AI Platform team, you will lead the development and maintenance of a platform that enables rapid experimentation and deployment of Generative AI systems. You will have a direct impact on how Wise builds and scales its AI capabilities, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.

• Lead the team responsible for building and maintaining a platform that enables rapid experimentation and production of Generative AI-based systems.
• Guide the sustainable growth of the Generative AI function, leading other engineering leads and shaping multiple teams across AI enablement and controls.
• Ensure the safety of customers and their data by providing tooling, guidance, and guardrails for teams working with Generative AI capabilities.

**What do you need?**

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. We value potential and enthusiasm as much as existing expertise. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• You have a **solid engineering background in Python with years of experience putting solutions into production and maintaining them.**
• You have high coding standards - understanding of test coverage best practices & the test pyramid concept, and you are well versed in writing effective, scalable and clean code.
• You have experience deploying microservices to cloud based systems.
• You have experience designing and implementing distributed and concurrent systems, knowing the tradeoffs between stateful/stateless and synchronous/asynchronous architectures.
• **You have knowledge and experience with LLMs and building LLM based applications.**
• Experience with **agentic frameworks and designing agentic-based workflows**.
• You have experience working with product teams helping to build out their ideas in production.
• You stay on top of the latest developments and trends in the AI industry.
• You know Prompt Engineering best practices.
• You have the ability to take initiative while working collaboratively - identify problems, empathise with stakeholders and collaborators, create plans and implement solutions.
• You are a great communicator with the ability to clearly relay your plans back to the team, mentor junior engineers and seek out feedback for yourself.
• The customer is at the heart of everything you do and this empathy drives the decisions you make.

**Nice to haves**

• You have a solid engineering background in Typescript/Javascript, and have worked building performant UI’s and/or using TS/JS AI frameworks.
• Familiar with standard Java stack including Spring Boot.
• Passionate about technology and its relationship with product and user experience.
• Ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• You are a security and privacy advocate, understanding concepts such as principle of least privilege, and are able to apply basic security principles at infrastructure and application level.
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code, AWS or other cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes and running containerized workloads.
• Knowledge of Semantic Search and RAG based workflows.
• Knowledge or experience with MCP servers.
• Knowledge/interest in payment platforms, foreign exchange & complex systems architecture.
• Be a customer of Wise.

## Additional Information

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