Engineering Lead - Connect
Core
Lead the engineering team responsible for Wise's upper networking layer, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient communication for services, customers, and partners via service mesh and ingress solutions.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead (Platform/Networking)
Builds
Service mesh, public/private ingress, traffic management primitives, and L4/L7 proxy infrastructure for a 500+ microservice estate.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure / Networking
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering team leadership (3-8+), stakeholder management, L4/L7 proxying (Envoy, Nginx), Kubernetes operations, service mesh architecture, public cloud design (AWS), automation tooling
Preferred skills
Go or C++ reading/writing, Kubernetes networking, L3-L7 protocols, eBPF, transport layer security, PCI DSS familiarity
Technologies
Envoy, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, AWS, Istio/Linkerd, Go, C++, eBPF, Cilium
Responsibilities
Own the vision and execution for the connectivity layer; evolve service mesh capabilities and drive adoption; improve ingress platforms for secure access; build reliable L4/L7 proxy infrastructure; create developer experience tooling and paved paths; lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team; manage operational ownership including on-call and incident response.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership
