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 DescriptionThe team you’ll be working with: Mitigation Platform Squad
At Wise, we’re on a mission to make financial services faster, simpler, and more accessible for everyone. To achieve our mission, we also need to safeguard our platform against financial crime and ensure our customers’ money is safe. The Mitigation Platform Squad plays a critical role in this by providing a highly scalable platform to orchestrate which information we need to request from our customers, and then have automations and Servicing Agents to review it. We enable Wise to remain compliant at scale.
We are developing the infrastructure that provides teams at Wise with insights into the operational cost and risk associated with their ownership of the Wise product. This empowers them to enhance the product, reducing Wise's cost for customers and enabling a smoother experience when additional information is required from them. The infrastructure also enables automation of Servicing processes through a rich API in a distributed environment, and it is the core connection between customers and our Servicing agents.
What does our squad look like?
We’re a full stack Squad, with Designers, Product Managers, Analysts, Backenders and Frontenders, with three teams, each owning part of our domain: Ingress to Mitigation domain, Collection, Case Assignment, Case Handling To deliver impact faster, we engage with other teams at Wise, so we deliver a platform with the right complexity and adaptability that gets more impactful for Wise on every release. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do — we value ownership, knowledge sharing, and a commitment to building stable, scalable systems while embracing fast-paced learning and iteration.
What we expect from you
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll be embedded in one team at a time, being instrumental in building and maintaining robust and scalable systems. You’ll collaborate closely on feature implementation and issue resolution, as well as discovering the main problems in the space, driving the long-term technical strategy around your ownership, balancing immediate business needs with sustainable architecture and long-term scalability. You'll also play a key role in cross-team collaboration, essential for building and growing our platform for other Wise teams and iterating over the platform's vision. This includes documenting at the appropriate abstraction level to scale the adoption of our developments. We're looking for a proactive individual with a strong foundation in backend technologies, a passion for writing clean and efficient code, and a desire to learn and grow within a supportive environment.
Qualifications- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages.
2+ years of experience in architecting large scale systems with proven ability to propose and implement domain-driven technical solutions capable of scaling along with the business.
Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps, scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.
Experience in up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineer via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
You are a proactive, effective communicator who is able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences and eager to learn new domains and have a strong bias towards action.
Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams is a nice-to-have.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages
- 2+ years of experience architecting large scale systems and proposing domain-driven technical solutions
- Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities including roadmaps and scoping
- Experience up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineers via processes and standards
- Proactive, effective communicator able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Passion for writing clean and efficient backend code and eagerness to learn new domains
- Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects across multiple teams
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all employees via time‑based RSUs/stock awards, aligning staff with company performance. This broad accessibility makes ownership a core part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include a global minimum of 33–36 paid days off and a paid six‑week sabbatical after four years with a cash stipend. The sabbatical is positioned as a standard milestone benefit in addition to annual leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Wise commits to a minimum of 18 weeks’ fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption across many offices. Eligibility rules and tenure may apply by location while maintaining a companywide minimum standard.
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What We Do
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.6 billion.
Why Work With Us
We’re truly global in who we are, how we work, and how we build. Everything we do is centred around creating a world of money that’s fast, easy, fair. And open to all. Everyone who works here owns a piece of Wise, from the work they do, to the stock they hold.
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Wise Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We expect new joiners in the office most days to build connections and learn from colleagues for their first six months. After that, most Wisers split their working week between the office and home, typically coming in at least 12 times a month.
