Senior KYC & Onboarding Platform Engineer

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own large-scale backend initiatives within our KYC/Onboarding verification domain. You’ll design robust microservices, ship clean APIs, and drive scalable, compliant systems that support billions of transactions.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers, own the technical roadmap, mentor peers, and ensure high reliability and observability across the platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience working with any language and architecting scalable microservices.
• Strong product mindset with emphasis on customer experience and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to make data-driven decisions to solve complex problems.
• Exceptional communication skills for diverse audiences including product managers and engineers.
• Commitment to clean, testable, maintainable, and high-performance code with strong code reviews.
• Proven ability to deliver large-scale technical projects.
• Extensive experience with relational and non-relational databases and data lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for your areas of ownership, focusing on debt, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Design and implement robust backend systems with clean APIs to hide internal complexity.
• Drive integration with risk and mitigation systems to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Identify and lead technical delivery of large-scale, cross-team initiatives.
• Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Data-driven decisions

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Technical leadership

Backend development

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Wise in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own large-scale backend initiatives within our KYC/Onboarding verification domain. You’ll design robust microservices, ship clean APIs, and drive scalable, compliant systems that support billions of transactions.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers, own the technical roadmap, mentor peers, and ensure high reliability and observability across the platform.