Engineering Lead 1

Wise
Hyderabad
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Collaboration","Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

Engineering Lead for Wise's India product team in Hyderabad, leading a first-of-its-kind product group expanding APAC. You will steer the engineering team, design onboarding and money movement solutions for India, ensure regulatory compliance, scale domestic and cross-border payments, and drive observability-driven growth and operational excellence.

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Engineering Lead 1

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Job Summary

Engineering Lead for Wise's India product team in Hyderabad, leading a first-of-its-kind product group expanding APAC. You will steer the engineering team, design onboarding and money movement solutions for India, ensure regulatory compliance, scale domestic and cross-border payments, and drive observability-driven growth and operational excellence.
Location: Hyderabad
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the Engineering Team that develops Wise’s products for the Indian market, facilitating onboarding and money movement solutions.
  • •Design onboarding and money movement solutions tailored to India by leveraging local KYC stacks and payment ecosystem.
  • •Lead development of robust systems to onboard customers quickly while ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • •Develop scalable money movement systems for fast domestic and cross-border payments.
  • •Oversee automation and tooling to process customer payments and data in a scalable, cost-efficient way.

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience leading an engineering team in a product-focused environment (fintech/payments)
  • •Strong collaboration and people leadership skills with a track record of developing engineers
  • •Experience designing onboarding, payments or KYC-related systems
  • •Familiarity with regulatory compliance considerations in payments or financial services
  • •Ability to plan roadmaps, manage stakeholder expectations and deliver with agile practices
Experience:FintechPaymentsFinancial services
Skills:LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationMentoringProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KYCObservabilityAnalyticsAPIsPaymentsSecurity

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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