Software Engineer Screening Controls

The team youll be working with: Screening Controls

We build and operate the control framework that screens customers counterparties and transactions across all Wise products. Our systems prevent the onboarding of sanctioned individuals and entities identify politically exposed persons and detect adverse media risk while keeping the customer experience as invisible and frictionless as possible. We ensure associated risks are thoroughly mitigated and that controls are functioning effectively.

In this role youll collaborate closely with our Compliance teams to understand which checks are required when to run them and how best to implement them. Youll also work hand-in-hand with our regional and growth teams to support their onboarding processes with FinCrime and screening solutions ensuring smooth efficient integration across all regions.

Scale and requirements:

• Processing tens of millions of screening events with sub-second end-to-end latency targets for real-time flows.
• High availability; deterministic and auditable outcomes; strong data lineage; and privacy by design.
• Integrations with multiple data providers and regional regulatory lists.

What youll do:

• Design and build scalable fault-tolerant screening services for sanctions politically exposed persons and adverse media across batch and real-time flows.
• Meet product SLOs for latency and availability by implementing strong observability retry mechanisms and graceful degradation strategies.
• Drive platform capabilities that let new Wise products integrate out of the box with screening.
• Partner with Compliance and regional product teams to define controls timings and rollout plans that meet regulatory obligations without unnecessary friction.
• Evolve data models and schemas ensuring auditability and data lineage across event streams and storage.

Qualifications :

What does it take  

• A strong product mindset: you prioritise work with customers and operational teams in mind and make data-driven decisions.
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• 3 years experience with Java 8; experience with the Spring Framework and microservices best practices.
• Experience working with relational databases query optimisation and schema design.
• Practical familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• You value testability and routinely back your code with automated tests.
• You believe in and follow best coding practices code reviews and open feedback.
• Experience with banking or FinCrime is a plus.

What does success look like

• Youll have onboarded and found your place by understanding your team and tribes vision and how you can contribute.
• Youll understand how our values can help guide your work.
• Youll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them.
• Youll raise the level of automation to enable scaling of screening solutions.
• Youll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives.
• Youll identify technical challenges and opportunities and help us build a world-class money transfer product.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time