Senior Software Engineer - Global KYC & Onboarding

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Global KYC and Onboarding squad, you’ll help scale verification systems and build new microservices that support 15.6 million users and £145.2bn moved across 160+ countries and 40+ currencies in FY2025.

You will work with backend and frontend engineers, data analysts, and product managers to deliver reliable, compliant verification journeys that improve customer

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with any language, asynchronous message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and have architected and built highly scalable microservices.
• A strong product mindset and a deep passion for both customer experience and regulatory compliance.
• You will prioritize work with a holistic view of the customer and business impact, making data-driven decisions to solve complex, ambiguous problems.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and architectural concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including product managers, designers, and other engineering teams.
• You demonstrate a commitment to writing clean, testable, maintainable, and highly performant code, and you are a strong advocate for best coding practices and rigorous code reviews.
• Proven ability to identify and lead the technical delivery of large-scale, organisationally-complex projects, adept at anticipating and escalating organizational blockers.
• Extensive experience working with relational and non-relational databases, including advanced query optimization, schema design, and data lifecycle management for sensitive information.

Responsibilities

• Own quarterly goals for the team and significantly impact verification processes.
• Define and own the technical roadmap for your areas, addressing technical debt and system health.
• Identify the right solutions to solve ambiguous problems and drive tough prioritization for business value.
• Mentor other engineers and share best practices to raise team standards.
• Create a high-performing team environment with a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Support visa sponsorship for local candidates and contribute to an inclusive engineering culture.

Skills

Microservices

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Code quality

Mentoring

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Global KYC and Onboarding squad, you’ll help scale verification systems and build new microservices that support 15.6 million users and £145.2bn moved across 160+ countries and 40+ currencies in FY2025.

You will work with backend and frontend engineers, data analysts, and product managers to deliver reliable, compliant verification journeys that improve customer