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Senior Software Engineer – Global KYC and Onboarding Team
At Wise, a global technology company building best-in-class financial solutions, we’re redefining how the world moves money. Min fees, max ease, full speed. Our mission is to make international financial transactions seamless, affordable, and accessible – for everyone, everywhere.
The Role
As part of the Global KYC and Onboarding Squad within the Servicing department, you’ll be central to helping Wise scale securely while delivering frictionless onboarding experiences globally across three key teams:
- Business Onboarding Verification
- Personal Onboarding Verification
- Wise Platform Verification (B2B operations)
Our diverse, cross-functional teams (engineers, designers, analysts, product managers) collaborate to solve complex challenges like document collection flows, automated review systems, agent tooling, and compliance monitoring. You’ll own critical verification journeys that bridge regulatory rigor with a fast, intuitive customer experience.
Congratulations on your autonomy! Characterised by data-driven decisions and technical excellence, this is one of finance’s most innovative verification ecosystems. The change you create here transforms onboarding from a hassle into a seamless first impression—bringing entrepreneurs, individuals, and employees closer to borderless finance.
We’re not just platform builders; we’re barrier removers.
Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll architect and lead large-scale projects that push verification boundaries:
Technical Leadership & Ownership
- Define and execute a robust technical roadmap addressing end-to-end challenges: technical debt, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Design clean, scalable backend systems that expose internally complex workflows via well-structured APIs and interfaces.
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Architectural Impact
- Integrate with risk and compliance systems, ensuring global scalability within regulatory frameworks.
- Drive system-level improvements—razor-sharp error handling, latency optimisations, resilience for edge cases.
Download & Shared Governance
- Identify and prioritize high-impact technical problems beyond your immediate scope, contributing to cross-team alignment.
- Advocate technical standards and best practices in pull requests, mentorship, and process design.
What We Look for in You
You’ll be a self-starter on par with Wise’s global scale, backing it up with:
Technical Expertise
✅ 4+ years driving Java 8+ applications and Spring architectures (micro or modular). ✅ Hands-on experience with asynchronous messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and highly scalable microservices design. ✅ Deep familiarity with relational & NoSQL databases, including query optimization, sensitive data lifecycle, and schema evolution. ✅ Ownership mindset with technical debt, performance baselines, and load testing—questionիմ thật nhấn thút! ✅ Cloud-native awareness (GCP prefered, but open) and CI/CD pipeline optimisation.
Problem Solving & Collaboration
🔥 Product passion—you default to asking: “How does this serve money-move heroes and enforce compliance?” 📊 Habit of making data-informed tradeoffs over gut decisions. ✒️ Stakeholder mastery—clarify complexity for product folks, designers, legal teams, and other engineers alike. 🧠 Balances scalability, customer friction, and compliance as “mobile-first” darling.
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Workshop for Influence & Growth
👩💻 Proud hands-on coder and mentor—craft clean, testable, high-performance code. 🗺️ Locate and escalate blockers before impact spirals unnoticed. 🤝 Ascend in technical leadership through process redesigns and team upskill.
Success Looks Like…
You’re more than a coder-evidence through:
📌 Embedded mission: own and crush 3-month high-impact goals, targeting major process friction wins. 📌 Strategic planning: Your roadmap delivers short-term impact + 5-year system resilience. 📌 Impact via ambiguity: Difficult but high-value decisions to navigate messy, interconnected tradeoffs. 📌 Leverage and expand expertise across teams, sharing skills in workshops or platform-governance papers. 📌 Champion that “psychically safe” team vibe—company-wide ExxonMobil levels of ideas coming from all angles.
Our Wise Values in Action
Welcome to a diverse crew of innovative international minds. We align on purpose as fiercely as we defend financial freedom.
- Wisdom in equity—people in march-step with business and inclusion. Help one another grow; don’t feel alone in your tech monthly lift. Through networks and career talks, we ensure our Wisers have measurable career progression.
Our teams get a spicy mic-hole to speak up if things are off-brand. Transparency energizes Whitehall shook confidence—yup.
Curious? Visit Wise.jobs or follow @wisehq on LinkedIn | Instagram for daily cracks in concrete we refuse to silo behind.
Also read our standards first “Zero” realm anything after slide on @mitruk git repos. Attend meetups or MMJ workshops—feedback allowed.
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