Engineering Lead - Business Expense Management

Job Description

Wise is a global technology company that builds solutions for moving and managing money worldwide. As part of our Spend Squad, the Business Expense Management team simplifies global employee expense management for small businesses. The role focuses on creating smooth and hassle free experiences for tracking, submitting, and managing business expenses for over 700,000 businesses.

About the Role

You'll own the end to end experience for business expense management, designing and building robust distributed backend systems, guiding architectural decisions, and partnering closely with Product, Business, and Card squads to deliver new features and growth.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend services for receipt collection and management, expense report submission, and enforcement of company spend policies.
• Automate month end processes using LLM technologies for document scanning, auto categorisation, and auto reconciliation.
• Develop innovative business card products such as subscription cards and credit options.
• Provide visibility over expenses for business owners and finance heads.
• Own a technical roadmap, ensuring high standards for maintainability, quality, and performance.
• Lead development of new solutions, driving initiatives from concept to production.
• Serve as a technical expert in the Business Expense Management domain, offering hands on guidance on architecture, code reviews, and best practices.
• Mentor and grow a diverse team of junior and senior engineers, fostering a supportive and growth focused environment.
• Collaborate with product, engineering leads, and stakeholders to shape technical and product roadmaps.
• Navigate complex priorities, make trade offs, and deliver risk reduced solutions that unlock growth.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering, with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.
• Expertise delivering reliable, robust services in production environments.
• Experience with distributed systems and comfortable discussing trade offs and technical direction.
• Hands on experience with front end development is a plus but not required.
• Strong product mindset: ownership, autonomy, and the ability to drive initiatives to completion.
• Experience working closely with product and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritize impactful work.
• Empathetic leader with a track record of mentoring engineers at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts to technical and non technical audiences.
• Background in payments, fintech, or a complex, high stakes domain; experience with global, distributed teams is a plus.
• Experience building systems that serve enterprise clients at scale and scaling teams and systems for global reach.
• Solid foundation in distributed systems and cloud architecture.

Benefits

• Starting salary: 111k - 145k GBP + RSUs.
• Wise benefits package (health, wellbeing, and more).

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