Engineering Lead - Wise AI Assistant Platform
Wise · Budapest, Hungary
About this role
Wise is hiring a manager-level Technical Lead in the software engineering function based in Budapest, Hungary. The posting calls out experience with TypeScript, Java, REST APIs, LLMs.
- Role
- Technical Lead
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Budapest, Hungary
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from Wise careersCompany Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
The team you will join: Wise Assistant
We're building Wise Assistant, a conversational AI that will become a central interface for managing money on Wise. This is a super visible and highly ambitious AI project
The team is at the forefront of applied AI at Wise. We already automate 40% of customer support chats with LLMs, and we're pushing further: voice automation, agentic AI and becoming the conversational operating system at Wise. Part product, part R&D, always production-grade at scale.
This role is a rare opportunity:
Production AI at scale: Not a PoC, not an experiment. Real LLM systems serving millions of customers, with real stakes.
R&D with impact. You'll read papers, prototype new approaches, and ship them to production. The team is pushing the frontier of what's possible with AI in fintech.
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