Senior Engineering Lead - Identities and Attributes

About the Position

Senior Engineering Lead - Identities and Attributes

We are looking for a highly accomplished Senior Engineering Lead to take the helm of one of our core teams within the Identity Risk Platform squad.

This is a critical, high-impact leadership role where you will simultaneously drive architectural strategy and scale the team responsible for Wise’s core identity layer, the foundation on which all risk, onboarding, and servicing decisions are built, powering Wise’s global risk platforms and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Ownership: You will be the technical authority for the design, delivery, and operational excellence of our core Identity and Attribute domains and related APIs.
• Domain Bridge: You will operate as the primary technical interface between Product squads, Risk/FinCrime, and Verification providers, ensuring clean, reusable API contracts and a unified identity view.
• Team Foundation & Growth: You’ll be instrumental in hiring, mentoring, and leading a multi-level engineering team, setting the standards and practices that become the foundation for the whole Identity Risk Platform.
• Data Integrity & Scale: You’ll own schemas and data contracts for people, businesses, roles, and attributes, and drive data quality, lineage, and auditability so that identity data is trustworthy, explainable, and compliant across its full lifecycle.

Requirements

• Strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer-facing products.
• Experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures.
• Great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, analysts, and data scientists.
• Expert in schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization for ACID-compliant transactional data. Experience with partitioning and read-replicas for scaling.
• Handling unstructured data at scale, implementing sharding, and optimizing aggregation pipelines for high-speed reads/writes and flexible schema evolution.
• Leveraging Redis or Valkey for high-performance distributed caching.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: HUF 2,550,000 - HUF 3,125,000 per month.
• Full-time position.

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.

Job Location

Hungary

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission, and able to progress in their careers.

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