Wise

1 month ago

Engineering Lead - Connect

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Job Summary

Lead and shape Wise’s Connect connectivity layer (service mesh, ingress, and traffic management) to support 500+ microservices at scale. Drive reliability, security, and performance while enabling product teams through developer experience, self-service tooling, and strong operational ownership. Mentor a 5–8 engineer team and collaborate with platform, security, and product engineering to balance customer outcomes with engineering sustainability.

Location: Tallinn

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own vision and execution for Wise’s connectivity layer: service mesh, ingress, and traffic management primitives that support platform scale and reliability and security
•Evolve service mesh capabilities (routing, service identity, observability, resilience patterns) and drive reliable adoption across a large microservice estate
•Own and improve ingress platforms (including Cloudflare) ensuring secure, observable, high-performance access with clear operational controls
•Build and operate highly reliable L4/L7 proxy infrastructure (Envoy and related components) and improve SLOs, latency, and incident prevention
•Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting expectations and developing engineers through feedback and opportunities

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 8,333 - 10,416 monthly

Key Requirements

•Experience leading and managing engineering teams (typically 3–8+), including mentoring and performance support
•Strong stakeholder management: comfortable influencing priorities across teams and aligning on technical direction
•Ability to balance customer outcomes, reliability, and engineering sustainability
•Experience building and operating software-based L4/L7 proxies (e.g. Envoy, Nginx, Apache)
•Experience operating microservices in a containerised environment, ideally Kubernetes

Experience:Financial services

Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationMentoringProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:EnvoyNginxKubernetesIstioLinkerdGoAWSCloudflareEBPF

Company Brief

Wise

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that provides low-cost international money transfers, multi-currency accounts and payment infrastructure for individuals and businesses worldwide.

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 2011

Glassdoor: 3.8

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Wise

1 month ago

Engineering Lead - Connect

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 2 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Tallinn

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own vision and execution for Wise’s connectivity layer: service mesh, ingress, and traffic management primitives that support platform scale and reliability and security
•Evolve service mesh capabilities (routing, service identity, observability, resilience patterns) and drive reliable adoption across a large microservice estate
•Own and improve ingress platforms (including Cloudflare) ensuring secure, observable, high-performance access with clear operational controls
•Build and operate highly reliable L4/L7 proxy infrastructure (Envoy and related components) and improve SLOs, latency, and incident prevention
•Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting expectations and developing engineers through feedback and opportunities

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 8,333 - 10,416 monthly

Key Requirements

•Experience leading and managing engineering teams (typically 3–8+), including mentoring and performance support
•Strong stakeholder management: comfortable influencing priorities across teams and aligning on technical direction
•Ability to balance customer outcomes, reliability, and engineering sustainability
•Experience building and operating software-based L4/L7 proxies (e.g. Envoy, Nginx, Apache)
•Experience operating microservices in a containerised environment, ideally Kubernetes

Experience:Financial services

Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationMentoringProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:EnvoyNginxKubernetesIstioLinkerdGoAWSCloudflareEBPF

Company Brief

Wise

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 2011

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor