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WiseSenior Software Engineer - Global KYC and Onboarding
Wise's KYC and onboarding squad, which sits inside Servicing, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London. The squad lets internal teams adjust onboarding and identity…
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Wise's KYC and onboarding squad, which sits inside Servicing, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London. The squad lets internal teams adjust onboarding and identity verification through configuration across many countries, while keeping customers protected and compliant. It has three groups: one for business onboarding, one for personal onboarding, and one that runs verification for Wise's B2B platform. The squad treats its verification systems as core production infrastructure. In…
Job Description
Wise's KYC and onboarding squad, which sits inside Servicing, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London. The squad lets internal teams adjust onboarding and identity verification through configuration across many countries, while keeping customers protected and compliant. It has three groups: one for business onboarding, one for personal onboarding, and one that runs verification for Wise's B2B platform.
The squad treats its verification systems as core production infrastructure. In FY2025 Wise served about 15.6 million customers, onboarded roughly 5.9 million new ones (around 500,000 a month) and moved 145.2 billion GBP across borders, spanning more than 160 countries and 40 currencies. The verification flow covers document capture, automated checks, agent tools and compliance monitoring. The squad is shifting KYC and FinCrime toward configuration-driven products, rebuilding systems as microservices, and using ML and AI where they improve decisions.
A senior engineer takes full ownership of large projects, including the roadmap for a domain, covering debt reduction, reliability, scaling and security. Responsibilities include building backend services with clean interfaces that conceal complexity, connecting to risk and mitigation tooling to keep Wise compliant, and spotting high-impact problems inside and beyond the team. Quarterly targets form part of the job, and so does coaching other engineers and spreading good practice.
Candidates should bring four or more years of work with asynchronous queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ and a record of designing microservices that scale. Deep experience with relational and document or key-value stores, including query tuning and handling sensitive data over its lifetime, is necessary. The company values clear communication of architecture to product, design and other engineering teams, and a commitment to tidy, testable and efficient code. Relocation support is not offered for this role, though internal visa sponsorship is available.
Responsibilities
- Own large, high-impact projects in the KYC and onboarding domain from start to finish
- Set the technical roadmap for owned areas, including debt, reliability, scalability and security
- Design robust backend systems with clean APIs that hide internal complexity
- Connect with risk and mitigation systems to keep Wise compliant
- Lead high-impact cross-team initiatives and mentor other engineers
Requirements
- Four or more years of backend engineering experience in any language
- Experience with asynchronous message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience designing highly scalable microservices with monitoring and observability
- Strong product mindset focused on customer experience and regulatory compliance
- Exceptional communication of technical concepts to varied audiences
- Proven leadership of large, organisationally complex technical delivery
- Deep familiarity with both relational and key-value or document stores, covering query tuning and data lifecycle management
Core Skills
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Is relocation provided?
No. The posting says relocation cannot be offered for this type of role.
Is visa sponsorship available?
The posting says internal visas can be sponsored.
Which teams make up the squad?
The squad has business onboarding, personal onboarding and Wise Platform verification teams.
What experience is required?
Four or more years of backend experience, including asynchronous message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, is required.
Is a salary stated?
The posting does not state a salary.
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