Engineering Lead - Verification Platform

About the Position

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to manage the Platform team within the Business Onboarding Verification (BOV) organisation - based in London. This team owns the platform rails that Business verification is built on; the sister team (BOV Global) uses those rails to ship customer-facing journeys and agent tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers - supporting their growth, well-being and performance, and empowering them to do their best work.
• Own the technical roadmap for the BOV platform - make sure it addresses real reliability, security and scalability concerns of the Business verification stack.
• Partner deeply with BOV Global, Personal Onboarding, Wise Platform Verification and Mitigation Handling so the platform serves real product needs.
• Be an active contributor to delivery. Support day-to-day execution, get hands-on when the team absolutely needs it, and stay in touch with the technology stack - leading by example.
• Own the health and productivity of the team, fostering a culture of ownership, transparency, bottom-up decision-making, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Own operational excellence. Ensure appropriate on-call rotas, SLAs, documentation and observability for platform services; run incidents in your area of ownership and turn each into a durable fix.
• Collaborate globally with engineering leads across Global KYC and Onboarding (London, Tallinn, Budapest and Hyderabad) and the wider Wise engineering community.
• Run the engineering rituals of the team so we stay agile and predictable in product development.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineers, including managing performance, well-being and growth, and handling difficult situations constructively.
• Built and led platform / infrastructure teams whose customers are other engineering teams.
• Solid Java (17+) knowledge and hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
• Strong system-design skills with real experience of distributed, high-throughput, resilient services.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design.
• Led the design and delivery of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills - you can articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and are comfortable working across geographies and time zones.
• Strong ownership and accountability, able to operate beyond a purely technical scope, and act as an enabler for the extended team.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: GBP 105000 - GBP 135000 yearly
• Full-time position
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Be part of a global team that is building the future of money transfers

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

At Wise, we're on a mission to build money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free. For businesses, that journey begins with verification (KYC), and getting it right is one of the highest-leverage things we do: every business we verify smoothly gets faster access to the financial services they need to grow, and every decision we make well keeps the financial system safer for everyone who relies on it - a small business getting paid on time, a migrant worker sending money home, a nonprofit moving funds across borders. There's a less visible side of this too: money launderers, fraudsters, sanctioned entities and organised crime networks actively try to exploit these same rails, and the harm they cause lands hardest on the people with the fewest defences against it. Getting Business KYC right is how we keep the door open for the first group and quietly close it on the second - and in this role, you'll be directly shaping that, globally.