Engineering Lead - Screening Handling

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

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

We’re looking for a talented Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

The team you’ll 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 team’s 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 team’s 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 team's 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?

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and suggesting future challenges
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
• You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued
• You’ll 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 – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

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For everyone, everywhere. 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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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