Sr Software Engineer - Screening Engine

The Opportunity

You'll be a key technical contributor on the Screening Engine team, working on some of the most consequential systems at Wise. That means you're not just executing - you're identifying problems before they're problems, driving technical direction within your team, and actively shaping the product roadmap alongside your peers. You'll work closely with compliance, risk, and operations teams to ensure our screening stays sharp, scalable, and defensible under regulatory scrutiny.

What you’ll do

Deliver & Own

• 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

Shape the Product

• 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

Build Great Systems

• 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 optimisation, and schema evolution for both relational and non-relational stores

Elevate the Team

• 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