Engineering Lead - APAC Expansion (Korea)
Core
Building the foundational engineering team and technical infrastructure for Wise's new Seoul office to support APAC regional expansion and customer experiences.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead (Team Building & Technical Strategy)
Builds
New engineering team structure, technical roadmap, and scalable financial infrastructure for the APAC region
Domain
Fintech / Cross-border payments / Distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, team leadership, technical roadmap ownership, incident management, regulatory liaison, product strategy, observability, security standards
Preferred skills
Building teams from scratch, stakeholder management, data-driven decision making
Technologies
Modern frameworks, distributed systems
Responsibilities
Define and build the Korea engineering team structure from the ground up, own the technical roadmap addressing debt and scalability, represent the company as Key Management Personnel to regulators, manage team performance and career growth, resolve system incidents and ensure SLAs, partner with product and design on customer solutions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
