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About the Role

We are the Global KYC and Onboarding squad in the Servicing department, focused on enabling teams at Wise to expand and fine-tune the business globally while remaining compliant and safe. Our verification systems are core production infrastructure protecting customers, enabling growth, and must remain reliable under constant change. Joining us means transforming a traditionally frustrating experience into one that's fast, intuitive, and fair, removing barriers to financial freedom for individuals and businesses.

Responsibilities

Own the technical roadmap for areas of ownership, ensuring they address technical debt, reliability, scalability, and security concerns.
Design and implement robust backend systems that provide clean APIs and interfaces.
Drive the integration with various risk and mitigation systems for compliance.
Identify and solve impactful problems within your team and beyond, contributing to cross-team initiatives.
Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team, impacting the ability to scale and improve verification processes.
Define and implement technical solutions or efficient operational processes that level up your team and contribute beyond it.
Mentor other engineers and share best practices.

Requirements

4+ years of experience working with any language, asynchronous message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and have architected and built highly scalable microservices.
Strong product mindset and a deep passion for both customer experience and regulatory compliance.
Prioritize work with a holistic view of the customer and business impact, making data-driven decisions to solve complex, ambiguous problems.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and architectural concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
Commitment to writing clean, testable, maintainable, and highly performant code.
Strong advocate for best coding practices and rigorous code reviews.
Proven ability to identify and lead the technical delivery of large-scale, organisationally-complex projects.
Adept at anticipating and escalating organizational blockers.
Extensive experience working with relational and non-relational databases, including advanced query optimization, schema design, and data lifecycle management for sensitive information.

Skills

Microservices architecture
Asynchronous message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Relational databases
Non-relational databases
API design
Technical roadmap ownership
Problem-solving
Data-driven decision making
Communication
Code reviews
Mentoring

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

GBP 87500 - GBP 111000

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
We are people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice.
We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

Equal Opportunity

We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.