Software Engineer – Screening Controls

About the role

We build and operate the control framework that screens customers, counterparties and transactions across all Wise products. Our systems prevent the onboarding of sanctioned individuals and entities, identify politically exposed persons and detect adverse‑media risk while keeping the customer experience invisible and frictionless.

Key responsibilities

• 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 enable new Wise products to integrate “out of the box” with screening.
• Partner with Compliance and regional product teams to define controls, timings and rollout plans that satisfy regulatory obligations without unnecessary friction.
• Evolve data models and schemas, ensuring auditability and data lineage across event streams and storage.

Required profile

• A strong product mindset with data‑driven decision making.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• 3+ years of experience with Java 8+ and the Spring Framework, building microservices.
• Experience with relational databases, query optimisation and schema design.
• Practical familiarity with modern front‑end frameworks such as React.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Commitment to best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback.
• FinCrime or banking experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Java 8+
• Spring Framework
• Microservices architecture
• Relational databases (SQL)
• Query optimisation and schema design
• React
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Code reviews