Engineering Lead Screening Handling

Wise is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe and were on a mission  to make money without borders the new normal. Weve got 16 million customers across the globe and were growing. Fast.

Were looking for a talented Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build a global platform thats scalable reliable and secure. Were working on lots of exciting challenges and youll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

The team youll be leading is a Screening Handling team

Our screening group is building solutions to prevent usage of Wise services by sanctioned individuals and organisations. Additionally it ensures that risks associated with politically exposed customers are well mitigated.  We are building a high throughput screening engine to check transaction information against a list of millions of sanctioned or politically exposed individuals and organisations. We own improve and maintain name matching and text normalisation algorithms to reduce the number of false positive alerts. 

The Screening Handling teams goal is to  scale our operations by improving alert review tools and automation while maintaining strong process auditability and staying compliant with regulations. Additionally you will be building a customer-facing UI for more convenient collection of information and documents.

As an engineering lead you will be responsible for the quality of your teams technical solutions including code quality architecture applicability performance reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards.

As a people manager you will be responsible for your teams productivity goal setting career path identification mentoring and supporting people in your team.

Our main challenges are:

• staying on top of changing regulatory requirements globally
• performing necessary screening checks without compromising instant speed
• reducing screening impact on customer experience with smarter screening and automation
• ensuring screening engine scalability and security as Wise grows.

What does it take  

• Experience working with Java Spring framework asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservices architecture this is essential
• Experience leading coaching and mentoring high performing teams building development plans and setting personal goals for engineers in your teams
• Comfortable working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
• Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems
• Comfortable with SQL databases optimisation and transaction
• A passion for international finance foreign exchange and payment systems

What does success look like

• Youll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and suggesting future challenges
• Youll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• Youll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
• Youll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued
• Youll help us scale-up and build a world class money product that impacts millions of customer

Interested Find out more:

• How we work a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• Our Engineering career map

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering #LI-Hybrid

  
  

  Additional Information :

  For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

  Were 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.

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time