Senior Engineering Lead - Treasury

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Lead to own Money Movement, Liquidity, Cash, and Asset Management. This role is crucial to impact clients everywhere moving billions instantly and reliably at scale. You will design the foundations for our next global leap. You will scale and lead the teams that build our high-confidence view of global cash and the tooling for asset management with automated, smart, risk-aware decisions. This is a unique chance. You will tackle deep engineering challenges with a clear, direct impact on client experience and Wise’s financials.

How do we work? At Wise, we work in autonomous, cross-functional teams. As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will work in a highly collaborative environment, partnering closely with Product Managers, Analysts, Data Scientists and key stakeholders in our Treasury, Finance, Pricing teams. Together, you will define the strategy, shape the roadmap, and deliver impactful solutions that advance our mission. What will you be working on? Global Treasury Money Movement: Ensure that Treasury can seamlessly distribute operational funds across hundreds of bank accounts in over 50 currencies timely, at minimal cost, and at scale. You will own core engineering services including Order Management, Market Connector, Liquidity Planner, and Wishmaster (our funding workflow platform).

Elevated Customer

Experience

Lead the development of a reliable, real-time view of our liquidity for multiple products. You will be responsible for driving our core North Star metrics, ensuring funds are delivered on time and in sufficient quantity so that customer transfers are never delayed. Financial Strength and Resilience: Design and implement advanced monitoring systems to optimize financial resource management systems, directly contributing to substantial operational efficiency gains. Strengthen our foundational scaling strategy, allowing us to operate with greater agility and confidence as we grow.

Controlled and Intelligent Scalability: Engineer sophisticated, fine-grained control mechanisms to manage liquidity utilization effectively. Ensure the rapid processing of high-value transactions while maintaining robust, strategic controls to manage flow as needed. Automated Investment and Risk Management Tooling: Develop systems to enable investment of surplus cash while adhering to strict risk and regulatory parameters. Collaborate with data scientists and help develop machine learning to forecast future cash inflows and outflows across all currencies and jurisdictions with high accuracy, enabling proactive and optimal cash positioning and minimizing idle balances.