Engineering Lead - Recommend Team (Backend Focused - Hands on)
Core
Lead the Recommend team to build referral platforms, onboarding experiences, and reward mechanisms that grow Wise's customer base through word-of-mouth and organic recommendations.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead (Backend Focused)
Builds
Referral and word-of-mouth platform, customer onboarding flows, and diverse reward mechanisms for referred users.
Domain
Fintech / International Money Transfer / Growth Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Team leadership and mentoring, Technical strategy and architecture, Hands-on backend coding (Java/OOP), Distributed high-scalability systems, Event-driven and microservice architectures, Domain expertise in virality and complex user interactions, Cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Product and customer mindset, Experience with frontend/mobile engineering, Experience in diverse markets and use-cases
Technologies
Java, Microservices, Event-driven architectures
Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers; Shape technical and product vision for referral campaigns; Architect core technology for scale and resilience; Own the health and productivity of the team; Join on-call rotation for critical services; Collaborate with Marketing and Regional teams on incentives.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
