Senior Engineering Lead - Identities and Attributes
Employer · Wise
IT manager
Software developerSystems analystFull-timeBudapest
Wise is looking for a highly accomplished Senior Engineering Lead to take the helm of one of our core teams within the Identity Risk Platform squad. This is a critical, high‑impact leadership role where you will simultaneously drive architectural strategy and scale the team responsible for Wise's core identity layer.
Tasks
- Architectural ownership of core Identity and Attribute domains and related APIs
- Operate as the primary technical interface between Product squads, Risk/FinCrime, and Verification providers
- Hiring, mentoring, and leading a multi‑level engineering team
- Own schemas and data contracts for people, businesses, roles and attributes
- Leading the design and evolution of our core Identity and Attributes domains
- Establishing and enforcing technical standards for Data Lineage, Data Quality, and Auditability
- Actively managing and mentoring the current engineering team (IC2-IC4)
- Serving as the key technical partner to Product, FinCrime, and other Engineering Leads
- Ensuring the platform is built for high availability, low latency, and massive scale
Requirements
- You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines
- You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers
- You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products
- You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
- You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Expert in schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization for ACID-compliant transactional data