Senior software engineer II - Personal onboarding Verification

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Join the Personal Onboarding Verification team at Wise, where you'll spearhead KYC checks and identity verification to ensure customers can seamlessly start using our products. As a Senior Software Engineer II, you'll own end-to-end flows—from document collection and automated reviews using ML models and vendors, to agent tooling and data lifecycle management. Our cross-functional team of engineers and data scientists collaborates closely with Product, Analyst, and Design to deliver world-class, scalable solutions that redefine financial onboarding. In this senior role, you'll go beyond individual coding to shape engineering strategy through whiteboarding, design, and innovative problem-solving, starting with identity verification in onboarding. Embrace a product mindset, prioritise real customer needs with data, and lead by mentoring juniors while driving process improvements. At Wise, we value ownership, fast iteration, and building stable systems for global impact—helping create a borderless money network for everyone, everywhere.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact engineering contributions as a senior team member
• Engage in whiteboarding, designing, and questioning engineering approaches
• Build identity verification features as part of onboarding flows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Manager, Analyst, and Designer
• Take ownership of complex problems and drive projects end-to-end
• Mentor junior engineers and foster knowledge sharing
• Improve codebase, architecture, and processes proactively
• Prioritise customer pain points using data-driven decisions

Required Qualifications

• Java experience
• Distributed systems experience
• Ability to handle different stakeholders and communicate across teams
• Collaboration skills
• Product Mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in KYC or identity verification
• Machine Learning or data science background
• Mentoring experience

Required Skills

• Java
• Distributed systems
• Stakeholder communication
• Cross-team collaboration
• Product thinking
• Customer-first approach
• Problem ownership
• Technical leadership
• Mentoring
• Data-driven decision making

Benefits

• £105,000 - £130,000 annual salary
• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Generous parental leave
• Learning & development budget
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Company retreats
• Wise card and other perks

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.