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Engineering Lead - Recommend

London, gbFull-time2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Lead the Recommend team to build referral platforms, onboarding experiences, and reward mechanisms that grow the Wise customer base through word-of-mouth and organic recommendations.

Role type

Senior Engineering Lead (Growth/Recommendations)

Builds

Referral and word-of-mouth platform, customer onboarding flows, and diverse reward mechanisms for referred users.

Domain

Fintech / International Money Transfer / Growth Engineering

Required skills

Team leadership and mentoring, Technical strategy and architecture, Hands-on coding (Java/OOP), Distributed systems and microservices, Event-driven architectures, Product and customer mindset, Cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience in virality and complex user interactions, Frontend/Mobile engineering background, Data analytics proficiency

Technologies

Java, Microservices, Event-driven systems, Distributed systems

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers; Shape technical and product vision for the referral platform; Architect for scale and resilience; Own the hiring and growth of the team; Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Regional teams; Participate in on-call rotation for critical services.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities