Software Engineer - Screening Controls

Requirements:

• Processing tens of millions of screening events with sub-second end-to-end latency targets for real-time flows.
• High availability; deterministic and auditable outcomes; strong data lineage; and privacy by design.
• Integrations with multiple data providers and regional regulatory lists.
• A strong product mindset: you prioritize work with customers and operational teams in mind and make data-driven decisions.
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• 3+ years’ experience with Java 8+; experience with the Spring Framework and microservices best practices.
• Experience working with relational databases, query optimization, and schema design.
• Practical familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• You value testability and routinely back your code with automated tests.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant screening services for sanctions, politically exposed persons, and adverse media across batch and real-time flows.
• Meet product SLOs for latency and availability by implementing strong observability, retry mechanisms, and graceful degradation strategies.
• Drive platform capabilities that let new Wise products integrate “out of the box” with screening.
• Partner with Compliance and regional product teams to define controls, timings, and rollout plans that meet regulatory obligations without unnecessary friction.
• Evolve data models and schemas, ensuring auditability and data lineage across event streams and storage.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with banking or FinCrime is a plus.

Perks and benefits:

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place by understanding your team and tribe’s vision, and how you can contribute.
• You’ll understand how our values can help guide your work.
• You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties, and how to go about solving them.
• You’ll raise the level of automation to enable scaling of screening solutions.
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives.
• You’ll identify technical challenges and opportunities and help us build a world-class money transfer product.