Role details
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
- The team you'll be working with: Screening Controls
- We build and operate the control framework that screens customers, counterparties, and transactions across all Wise products.
- Our systems prevent the onboarding of sanctioned individuals and entities, identify politically exposed persons, and detect adverse media risk, while keeping the customer experience as invisible and frictionless as possible.
- We ensure associated risks are thoroughly mitigated and that controls are functioning effectively.
- In this role, you'll collaborate closely with our Compliance teams to understand which checks are required, when to run them, and how best to implement them.
- You'll also work hand-in-hand with our regional and growth teams to support their onboarding processes with FinCrime and screening solutions, ensuring smooth, efficient integration across all regions.
Scale and requirements:
- Processing tens of millions of screening events with sub-second end-to-end latency targets for real-time flows.
- High availability; deterministic and auditable outcomes; strong data lineage; and privacy by design.
- Integrations with multiple data providers and regional regulatory lists.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant screening services for sanctions, politically exposed persons, and adverse media across batch and real-time flows.
- Meet product SLOs for latency and availability by implementing strong observability, retry mechanisms, and graceful degradation strategies.
- Drive platform capabilities that let new Wise products integrate "out of the box" with screening.
- Partner with Compliance and regional product teams to define controls, timings, and rollout plans that meet regulatory obligations without unnecessary friction.
- Evolve data models and schemas, ensuring auditability and data lineage across event streams and storage.
Qualifications
What does it take?
- A strong product mindset: you prioritise work with customers and operational teams in mind and make data-driven decisions.
- Great communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- 3+ years' experience with Java 8+; experience with the Spring Framework and microservices best practices.
- Experience working with relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design.
- Practical familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- You value testability and routinely back your code with automated tests.
- You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback.
- Experience with banking or FinCrime is a plus.
What does success look like?
- You'll have onboarded and found your place by understanding your team and tribe's vision, and how you can contribute.
- You'll understand how our values can help guide your work.
- You'll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties, and how to go about solving them.
- You'll raise the level of automation to enable scaling of screening solutions.
- You'll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives.
- You'll identify technical challenges and opportunities and help us build a world-class money transfer product.
Additional Information
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 .