Senior Engineering Lead - Identities and Attributes

Company Description

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
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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
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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.

• 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 – high‑throughput, low‑latency services that are the backbone of the Identity Risk Platform, and power all product and risk teams.
• Domain bridge
  You will operate as the primary technical interface between Product squads, Risk/Fin Crime, 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.

• Evolution of our Identity domains:
  Leading the design and evolution of our core Identity and Attributes domains. This involves defining robust API contracts and data schemas, making identity data risk‑aware by design, managing attribute acquisition & lifecycle, powering new onboarding & product experiences.
• Driving Data Governance:
  Establishing and enforcing technical standards for Data Lineage, Data Quality, and Auditability within the Identity Risk Platform. You’ll ensure the platform meets stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Scaling the Team and Culture:
  Actively managing and mentoring the current engineering team (IC2-IC4), while driving the recruitment strategy to grow the team. This includes defining clear roles, efficient processes, and a high-performance engineering culture.
• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment:
  Serving as the key technical partner to Product, Fin Crime, and other Engineering Leads. You will champion the architectural vision for the platform, ensuring technical decisions align with both business agility and security requirements.
• Platform Resilience:
  Ensuring the platform is built for high availability, low latency, and massive scale, managing the operational health (SLAs/SLOs) of a critical, real-time risk service.

• You have 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 – you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
• You are an expert in schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization for ACID‑compliant transactional data. Experience with partitioning and read‑replicas for scaling.
• You know how to handle unstructured data at scale, implementsharding, and optimize aggregation pipelines for high‑speed reads/writes and flexible schema evolution.
• You leverage
  
  Redis or Valkey for high‑performance distributed caching.
• You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
• You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
• You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
• You…