
Senior Engineering Lead - Personal Onboarding Verification
Wise • London, England, United Kingdom
Role & seniority: Engineering Lead for Personal Onboarding Verification (mid-senior to senior level), reporting to squad leadership; leads a cross-functional engineering team.
Stack/tools: Java or similar OOP languages; modern tech stack; distributed high scalability systems and microservices; collaboration with Product, Design, Analytics, Data Science; in-house ML model usage for onboarding reviews.
Top 3 responsibilities
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Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional engineering team; support growth and empower delivery.
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Shape roadmap and set technical/product vision with function leads; ensure robust, scalable product delivery.
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Manage team health and productivity; resource planning, cadence alignment, and alignment with wider technical strategy across squads.
Must-have skills
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Proven leadership and mentoring of software engineers.
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Strong product and customer mindset; experience building customer-facing products.
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Technical depth in OOP (Java or similar) and modern stacks; experience with distributed, scalable systems and microservices.
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Excellent communication; ability to convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
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Collaborative experience with designers, product managers, analysts, and data scientists.
Nice-to-haves
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Prior experience in KYC/onboarding or financial/regulated domains.
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Familiarity with ML-enabled review processes or in-house ML models.
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Experience across multiple Wise squads or large-s
Full Description
Company Description 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 will be joining: Personal Onboarding Verification The Personal Onboarding Verification team is part of the Global KYC and Onboarding Squad. The team responsible for KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures that our customers have to go through before they are compliant to start using our products. The team's responsibility is the whole onboarding verification for individuals, which spans end-to-end from triggering certain checks, through information and document collection flows further to automated and manual review (including in-house ML models), and up to making the final decisions on the customer onboarding. Having product-focused and forward-thinking engineers has allowed Wise to cater to the needs of customers unlike any other business. We’ve built a world-leading platform and product, but there is still more to do.
As the Engineering Lead for Personal Onboarding Verification team, you will
- Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
- Work closely with the function leads in the team (Product, Design, Analytics, Data Science) and your team members to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
- Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
- Have a deep understanding of the tech and product of your teams - building out a clear tech strategy that follows from our product and marketing goals, setting high standards for quality, leading by example.
- Own the health and productivity of the team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across the Squad and other Wise teams to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
Your mission
As the Engineering Lead for Personal Onboarding Verification team, you will
- Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
- Work closely with the function leads in the team (Product, Design, Analytics, Data Science) and your team members to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
- Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
- Have a deep understanding of the tech and product of your teams - building out a clear tech strategy that follows from our product and marketing goals, setting high standards for quality, leading by example.
- Own the health and productivity of the team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across the Squad and other Wise teams to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
- Qualifications
A bit about you
- You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
- You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
- You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
- You possess strong technical expertise or background in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks.
- You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
- You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, analysts and data scientists.
- Additional Information
- 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.
- If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Compensation: GBP125000 - GBP153000 - yearly