Sr Software Engineer Screening Engine

The Opportunity

Youll be a key technical contributor on the Screening Engine team working on some of the most consequential systems at Wise. That means youre not just executing - youre identifying problems before theyre problems driving technical direction within your team and actively shaping the product roadmap alongside your peers. Youll work closely with compliance risk and operations teams to ensure our screening stays sharp scalable and defensible under regulatory scrutiny.

What youll do

Deliver & Own

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects within the Screening Engine - from design through deployment to post-release monitoring

• Proactively identify risks and blockers early and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked

• Write clean testable well-reviewed code and hold a high bar for the team around you

Shape the Product

• Contribute meaningfully to the technical and product roadmap for Sanctions PEP and Adverse Media screening

• Use data and benchmarking to continuously improve matching algorithm effectiveness and precision

• Balance risk reduction operational scalability and growth when making trade-offs - keeping the customer experience front and centre

Build Great Systems

• Design and evolve fault-tolerant high-throughput low-latency distributed systems built for regulatory scrutiny

• Improve observability reliability and maintainability of existing services - not just build new ones

• Make thoughtful decisions around database design query optimisation and schema evolution for both relational and non-relational stores

Elevate the Team

• Actively participate in and lead code reviews setting a high bar for quality and constructive feedback

• Grow the people around you - through mentoring onboarding and sharing knowledge proactively

• Collaborate across teams and functions - compliance risk operations - to solve cross-cutting problems

Qualifications :

About You

Were looking for someone who combines strong technical depth with a growing product instinct and the desire to drive meaningful outcomes - not just ship code.

Essential

• Solid experience with Java and the Spring framework - you can design and build production-grade microservices confidently

• Experience with asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka RabbitMQ SQS or similar) in a high-throughput production environment

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design versioning and operational concerns

• Hands-on experience with both relational (PostgreSQL MySQL) and non-relational databases; you think carefully about schema design and query performance

• Comfortable owning the full lifecycle of a service - design testing deployment monitoring and iteration

Strong to Have

• Experience in compliance financial crime or risk-adjacent engineering domains

• Familiarity with string matching fuzzy search or entity resolution algorithms

• Experience designing for regulatory requirements - audit logging explainability data retention

• Understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: consistency availability latency

Who You Are

• You have a genuine product mindset - you ask why are we building this as often as how

• You make data-driven decisions and arent afraid to challenge assumptions with evidence

• You take ownership seriously - you follow through manage risks proactively and dont let things fall through the cracks

• Youre a natural collaborator who brings people together across disciplines to solve hard problems

• You believe in feedback - you give it receive it and use it to grow

What We Offer

• A mission that genuinely matters - youre protecting real peoples money and financial access

• A complex high-stakes technical domain with real room to grow

• A team that values craft ownership and product thinking equally

• Wises standard benefits flexibility and a distributed-first culture

Additional Information :

Why Join Us

- Youll work in a friendly fast-paced fintech startup where ownership and collaboration are valued.  

- Youll tackle challenging technical problems and have the autonomy to propose and implement solutions.  

- Youll be part of a team that cares about stability scalability and innovation while embracing rapid iteration and continuous learning.  

- Youll have the opportunity to make a real impact on our customers lives by improving how they interact with our product.  

If youre excited about solving complex problems driving technical excellence and working in a team that values ownership and collaboration wed love to hear from you. Lets build something amazing together! 

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.

If you want to find out more about what its like to work at Wise visit .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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.

If you want to find out more about what its like to work at Wise visit .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time