Engineering Manager - North America Money Movement

Job Description

Engineering Manager - North America Money Movement

Salary: $210,000-280,000 USD per annum + RSU + Benefits

Wise, one of the world's fastest-growing companies, is on a mission to redefine global finance by making money without borders the new norm. With 16 million customers worldwide, we are expanding rapidly, evidenced by a remarkable 145% increase in North American revenue from 2021 to 2023.

About Wise: Current banking systems present challenges in seamlessly sending, spending, and receiving money across borders. At Wise, we are crafting a new financial infrastructure to address these limitations. As a pioneer in innovative money transfer solutions, our platform also provides true multi-currency banking, allowing customers to manage their funds efficiently.

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager based in our Austin office, offering a flexible combination of in-office and remote work. As an integral part of our mission, you will lead a team dedicated to optimizing money movement between customers, banking partners, and Wise, leveraging the power of APIs.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the North America Team:

• You’ll integrate Wise with the best banks in North America to power our money movement engine
• You’ll build an infrastructure that enables Wise to send/receive money instantly in North America
• You’ll multiply Wise’s growth rate by unlocking core functionality through the power of APIs and cross-border payments infrastructure - in short, the products you build will help Wise reach consumers and small businesses wherever they are managing their money in global environments.
• You'll lead, coach and grow a team locally in North America, as well as shape the technical vision in the Money Movement domain.
• You’ll scale a best in class product across the US and Canada while ensuring the learnings you have in-market are shared back with our other global regions and you are building a global API platform that truly works across borders.

What does it take?

1. 1. Working with other Wise leaders globally to achieve our Mission: Money without borders.
   2. Building a championship team. Fostering an environment of autonomy where everyone is encouraged to  identify and prioritize customer problems and opportunities.
   3. Helping your team make data-driven decisions by providing feedback on architecture and approach.
   4. Raise the bar for the team to reach new heights of technical excellence.

Is that you?

• • You want to work for a company you where believe in its mission
  • You’re passionate about building high quality products, working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
  • You have experience in leading, hiring, coaching and mentoring driven individuals
  • You’re enabling your team to solve complex problems by breaking them down into small iterative steps of incremental value
  • You’ve built and designed scalable and performing systems
  • You have experience building integrations with external partners
  • You have experience with microservices architecture, asynchronous message queues and SQL databases
  • You are still hands on with coding, and enjoy getting your hands dirty

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Nice to have:

• You’ve worked with Java/Kotlin, preferably with Spring Boot
• Experience with financial file formats (ISO 20022, NACHA, FEDWIRE, SWIFT) is a big plus!

What does success look like? 

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and look to future challenges
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product has on their lives 
• You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
• You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product that impacts millions of customers

What you get back:

• The ability to choose your own path to success - you’ll have the freedom to define the vision 
• The freedom to have real impact - the part o