Sr Software Engineer - Screening Engine

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

About You

We're 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 aren't afraid to challenge assumptions with evidence

You take ownership seriously - you follow through, manage risks proactively, and don't let things fall through the cracks

You're 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 - you're protecting real people's 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

Wise's standard benefits, flexibility, and a distributed-first culture

Why Join Us?

- You’ll work in a friendly, fast-paced fintech startup where ownership and collaboration are valued.

- You’ll tackle challenging technical problems and have the autonomy to propose and implement solutions.

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

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

If you’re excited about solving complex problems, driving technical excellence, and working in a team that values ownership and collaboration, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s build something amazing together!

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.

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

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.

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