Wise

3 days ago

Engineering Lead - Verification Platform

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Job Summary

Lead Wise’s Verification Platform team within Business Onboarding Verification (BOV), owning the platform rails that business verification depends on. Drive the technical roadmap for reliability, security, and scalability, mentor a cross-functional engineering group, and stay hands-on when needed. Partner with BOV Global, Personal Onboarding, and verification stakeholders to deliver configuration-driven onboarding, unified vendor integrations, review tooling, and durable operational excellence across global systems.

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional engineering team, supporting growth, well-being, and performance.
•Own the technical roadmap for the BOV Platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability of the business verification stack.
•Partner with BOV Global, Personal Onboarding, Wise Platform Verification, and Mitigation Handling to ensure the platform meets real product needs.
•Contribute actively to delivery by supporting day-to-day execution and getting hands-on when the team needs it.
•Own operational excellence, including on-call rotas, SLAs, documentation, observability, incident response, and durable fixes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 105,000 - 135,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineers, including performance, well-being, growth, and constructive handling of difficult situations.
•Built and led platform/infrastructure teams whose customers are other engineering teams, with strong prioritization and ability to prevent bespoke-request queues.
•Solid Java (17+) knowledge with hands-on experience using Spring and Spring Boot.
•Strong system-design skills for distributed, high-throughput, resilient services, including event-driven architectures, sagas, and idempotency.
•Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including query optimization and schema design.

Experience:Financial servicesKYCPlatform engineering

Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationOwnershipSystem design

Languages:English

Tech Stack:JavaSpringSpring BootAPIsMLAIEvent-driven architecturesSagasIdempotencyConfiguration-as-a-serviceObservability

Company Brief

Wise

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that provides low-cost international money transfers, multi-currency accounts and payment infrastructure for individuals and businesses worldwide.

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 2011

Glassdoor: 3.8

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Wise

3 days ago

Engineering Lead - Verification Platform

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 4 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional engineering team, supporting growth, well-being, and performance.
•Own the technical roadmap for the BOV Platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability of the business verification stack.
•Partner with BOV Global, Personal Onboarding, Wise Platform Verification, and Mitigation Handling to ensure the platform meets real product needs.
•Contribute actively to delivery by supporting day-to-day execution and getting hands-on when the team needs it.
•Own operational excellence, including on-call rotas, SLAs, documentation, observability, incident response, and durable fixes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 105,000 - 135,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineers, including performance, well-being, growth, and constructive handling of difficult situations.
•Built and led platform/infrastructure teams whose customers are other engineering teams, with strong prioritization and ability to prevent bespoke-request queues.
•Solid Java (17+) knowledge with hands-on experience using Spring and Spring Boot.
•Strong system-design skills for distributed, high-throughput, resilient services, including event-driven architectures, sagas, and idempotency.
•Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including query optimization and schema design.

Experience:Financial servicesKYCPlatform engineering

Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationOwnershipSystem design

Languages:English

Tech Stack:JavaSpringSpring BootAPIsMLAIEvent-driven architecturesSagasIdempotencyConfiguration-as-a-serviceObservability

Company Brief

Wise

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 2011

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor