Senior Engineering Lead - Treasury

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make money movement and management easier and more affordable for everyone. As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will own Money Movement, Liquidity, Cash, and Asset Management, and tackle deep engineering challenges with a direct impact on client experience and Wise's financials. You will work in autonomous, cross-functional teams and collaborate closely with Product Managers, Analysts, Data Scientists, and key stakeholders in Treasury, Finance, and Pricing.

• Lead the development and scaling of engineering teams responsible for Money Movement, Liquidity, Cash, and Asset Management.
• Design and implement advanced monitoring systems to optimize financial resource management systems, contributing to operational efficiency gains.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define strategy, shape the roadmap, and deliver impactful solutions that advance the company's mission.

**What do you need?**

We are seeking a proven **Senior Engineering Leader** who thrives on complexity. The ideal candidate combines architectural depth in distributed systems with a sharp commercial and product intuition, capable of navigating the intricate trade-offs between financial cost, operational risk, and customer experience.

**Qualifications:**

• You have a strong background in software engineering, with proven experience designing, building, and operating complex, scalable and reliable distributed and event-driven systems in a production environment.
• You are comfortable working on a complex and high-stakes domain, such as treasury, payments, or finance, and can guide a team through its unique technical challenges.
• You have a strong sense of ownership and the ability to think beyond technical implementation to understand how your team's work directly impacts business risk, cost, and customer satisfaction.
• You have experience working closely with product managers and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritize the most impactful work.
• You have demonstrable experience leading and mentoring engineering leads and engineers across diverse domains and all levels. You possess the skills to guide leads towards high-performing teams that are collaborative, supportive, and passionate about achieving goals.
• You lead by example, inspiring your team to produce high-quality, maintainable code and uphold high engineering standards.
• You are an excellent communicator, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• **While these are the core requirements, the following experiences will set you apart:**
• **•** Experience leading an engineering team in a treasury, fintech, or other complex, high-stakes domain.

• Experience building and scaling event-driven systems with real-time aggregations frameworks
• Previous experience scaling both teams and systems to support rapid business growth.

## Additional Information
**Wise Benefits**
🚀 RSUs in a growing company
💪 An annual self-development budget
❤️ Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 8 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
❤️ Paternity leave for 8 weeks at full pay
🌿 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life
🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
Find out more about [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer).
**Interested? Find out more:**

• **👀 [How we work – a practical guide](https://wise.jobs/how-we-work)**
• **💻 [The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 edition](https://medium.com/wise-engineering/wise-tech-stack-2025-update-d0e63fe718c7)**
• **📈 [Our Engineering career map](https://www.wise.jobs/engineering-career-map/)**
• **❤️ [Our values](https://wise.jobs/our-values)**
• …or check out our **[Engineering blog](https://medium.com/wise-engineering)**

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.

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