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

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

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