Engineering Lead - Transaction Processing

Wise
Tallinn
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 6,667 - 8,333 monthlyFunction: Administration & Executive Assistance0Skills: ["Mentoring","Coaching","Technical leadership","Communication","Ownership"]

Lead the Transaction Processing team to build Wise’s first credit card offering, owning the full transaction lifecycle from authorization and tokenisation through clearing. Ensure scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance while managing complex integrations with card schemes. Drive the technical roadmap and architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner closely with product and engineering leaders to deliver a trustworthy, regulation-compliant platform as Wise grows globally.

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Wise
Wise
1 month ago

Engineering Lead - Transaction Processing

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Job Summary

Lead the Transaction Processing team to build Wise’s first credit card offering, owning the full transaction lifecycle from authorization and tokenisation through clearing. Ensure scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance while managing complex integrations with card schemes. Drive the technical roadmap and architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner closely with product and engineering leaders to deliver a trustworthy, regulation-compliant platform as Wise grows globally.
Location: Tallinn
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the transaction processing technical roadmap and maintain the product to high standards.
  • •Lead development of new solutions and greenfield initiatives to build new customer-facing products.
  • •Provide hands-on technical leadership across architectural design, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
  • •Lead, coach, and mentor a diverse group of engineers while fostering technical ownership and continuous improvement.
  • •Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape roadmaps, deliver scalable solutions, and manage integrations with card schemes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 6,667 - 8,333 monthly

Key Requirements

  • •Strong background in software engineering with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems.
  • •Experience delivering reliable, robust services in a production environment.
  • •Comfort with distributed systems and technical trade-offs.
  • •Ability to guide a team through technical challenges in a complex domain.
  • •Experience leading a team in payments/fintech or similarly complex, high-stakes domains, ideally with global/distributed setups.
Experience:0FintechPaymentsDistributed systemsCloud architecture
Skills:MentoringCoachingTechnical leadershipCommunicationOwnership
Languages:English

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
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