Requirements

• Solid experience with Java and the Spring framework - you can design and build production-grade microservices confidently
• Experience with asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or similar) in a high-throughput production environment
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, versioning, and operational concerns
• Hands-on experience with both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases; you think carefully about schema design and query performance
• Comfortable owning the full lifecycle of a service - design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration

Nice to Have

• Experience in compliance, financial crime, or risk-adjacent engineering domains
• Familiarity with string matching, fuzzy search, or entity resolution algorithms
• Experience designing for regulatory requirements - audit logging, explainability, data retention
• Understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: consistency, availability, latency

What You'll Be Doing

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects within the Screening Engine - from design through deployment to post-release monitoring
• Proactively identify risks and blockers early, and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked
• Write clean, testable, well-reviewed code and hold a high bar for the team around you

• Contribute meaningfully to the technical and product roadmap for Sanctions, PEP, and Adverse Media screening
• Use data and benchmarking to continuously improve matching algorithm effectiveness and precision
• Balance risk reduction, operational scalability, and growth when making trade-offs - keeping the customer experience front and centre

• Design and evolve fault-tolerant, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems built for regulatory scrutiny
• Improve observability, reliability, and maintainability of existing services - not just build new ones
• Make thoughtful decisions around database design, query optimization, and schema evolution for both relational and non-relational stores

• Actively participate in and lead code reviews, setting a high bar for quality and constructive feedback
• Grow the people around you - through mentoring, onboarding, and sharing knowledge proactively
• Collaborate across teams and functions - compliance, risk, operations - to solve cross-cutting problems

Perks and Benefits

• A mission that genuinely matters - you're protecting real people's money and financial access
• A complex, high-stakes technical domain with real room to grow
• A team that values craft, ownership, and product thinking equally
• Wise's standard benefits, flexibility, and a distributed-first culture