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.
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.
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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Skills Required
- 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
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Value testability and back code with automated tests
- Practical familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React)
- Strong product mindset and data-driven decision making
- Great communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Follow best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
- Experience with banking or FinCrime
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Global paid time off is presented as 33–36 days including local public holidays, plus three “Me Days,” with a paid six‑week sabbatical and stipend after four years. Work-from-anywhere for up to 90 days per year after six months further complements time away and flexibility.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — RSUs are granted to all employees, enabling broad ownership in the company. Equity is positioned as a standard, company‑wide component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous across markets, with U.S. pages listing up to 18 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non‑birthing parents. Additional family‑oriented supports such as onsite Mother’s Rooms and abortion travel benefits are noted in certain locations.
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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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