WISE

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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.

Our main vision points are:

• We want to fight financial crime, and not just comply with requirements
• Near-real time performance of the fuzzy name matching engine, capable of performing a high number of checks per second with good precision and recall characteristics..
• Automation of manual processes: If some manual process can be described, it should be automated!

Qualifications

What does it take?

1. Being responsible for the overall health and productivity of the engineers within your team
2. Providing feedback on architecture and approach and helping teams make a data-driven decisions 
3. Having an overview of what’s happening across the organisation and thinking about engineering as a whole 
4. Rolling your sleeves up and coding, being involved in the entire process

Is that you?

• Experience leading, coaching and mentoring a data driven and high performing teams
• A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems
• Optimization of operational processes, back-office tooling and automation
• Comfortable working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
• Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems
• Experience working with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservice architecture 
• Comfortable with SQL databases and optimisation

…but don’t worry, we don’t expect you to know everything!

Additional Information

What does success look like? 

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and look to 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 transfer product that impacts millions of customers

Interested? Find out more

The Wise Tech Stack, 2025

Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

Wise Engineering 

What we offer:

Benefits in our Tallinn office

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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