Staff Software Engineer Global KYC and Onboarding

About the role:

We are the Global KYC and Onboarding squad in the Servicing department and we have a mission: to enable teams at Wise to expand and fine-tune the business in a config change manner all across the globe while remaining compliant and safe for the customers. There are three teams in the squad: Business Onboarding Verification Personal Onboarding Verification and Wise Platform Verification (this is our B2B platform).

What will you be working on

The current KYC infrastructure has served us well for many years but we are approaching its scalability limits. For the past few quarters weve been busy building a brand new infrastructure the Onboarding collaboration between the teams in the squad and sister teams in other squads weve iteratively launched some of the key components already but there are still many challenges ahead.

The teams are fully stacked cross-functionally with ownership spanning across owning FinCrime Controls end-to-end: when they trigger what they require the UX of collection and recovery automation (with in-house ML and external vendors) manual reviews and finally enabling relevant capabilities for customers in the product. We have dedicated Analysts Designers Data Scientists and Engineers. We need a very strong Engineering partner to act across the teams and functions in the squad to expedite the work on the Onboarding Platform.

What do you need

• 10 years of software engineering experience with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages. 

• 2 years of experience in architecting large scale systems with proven ability to propose and implement domain-driven technical solutions capable of scaling along with the business.

• Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.

• Experience in up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineer via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow

• You are a proactive effective communicator who is able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences and eager to learn new domains and have a strong bias towards action.

• Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams is a nice-to-have.

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 customers

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 do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: 130k - 164k RSUs

  • Wise Benefits

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  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