Engineering Lead - Screening

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world’s first platform to offer true multi-currency banking. 

The team you’ll be working with: Screening team

Screening team's goal is making sure that known bad actors are not using Wise with minimal impact on good customers. We do fuzzy matching on customer and transaction data against lists of sanctioned individuals and organisations, politically exposed persons, and adverse media. We also provide tooling for operational agents and work on automating manual work. We are a mature team of engineers, data analysts, and product people based mostly in Tallinn and London. Our operational team is working all over the world: from Kuala Lumpur to Tampa. Our vision is globally compliant screening program that offers frictionless experience for good actor customers.

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 customers

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.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

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.

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