Engineering Lead Verification Platform

Were 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. There are three organisations in the wider squad Business Onboarding Verification Personal Onboarding Verification and Wise Platform Verification.

The scale we operate at

• In FY2025 15.6M people and businesses used Wise; we onboarded over 5.9M new customers (500K/month) and moved 145B across borders (400M/day) across 160 countries and 40 currencies.

• Our onboarding decisions gate 25B/year in cross-currency volume.

• Verification is on the critical path for every new signup and for 10 product teams across Wise that build on our rails today.

Our verification systems are not supporting tools they are core production infrastructure that protects customers enables growth and must stay reliable under constant change in regulations policies and evolving threat patterns.

The team youll lead - Verification Platform

You will lead the Verification Platform (under BOV) team in London a cross-functional engineering team whose mission is to provide the BOV platform (Onboarding Platform for business requirement evaluation collection review unified vendor integrations repapering rails) that lets BoV Global and regional teams iterate safely and quickly on business verification without rebuilding plumbing. Concretely this team owns three work-streams:

• Onboarding Platform (for business) modelling Business requirements as configuration-as-a-service per legal-entity type (Ltd LLC Sole Trader Partnership Corp) with versioned rules and repapering / refresh rails so a policy change is a config choice not a multi-quarter project.

• Review tooling platform the review surface on which Global (and regional teams) build their review flows; the foundation that makes AI-assisted review and review automation measurable and safe to roll out.

• Unified Vendor Integrations one observable retryable swappable gateway for registry adverse media website signal Acceptable Use Policy and Business Onboarding data vendors replacing todays point-to-point integrations.

Your mission

As the Engineering Lead for BOV Platform you will:

• 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 not what the platform team thinks the platform should be.

• 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 the way Wise engineering works.

• 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.

Why this is an exciting problem

Picture a pharmaceutical company incorporated in Singapore with one shareholder living in Dubai trading in the UK and Singapore. In one signup that business touches at least four regulatory perimeters Singapore UK UAE for the shareholder plus industry-specific controls for pharma (enhanced due diligence sanctions source-of-funds). Our job is to work out in real time exactly what each regulator needs verify it against the right sources and hand the customer a signup that feels effortless.

Now scale that across 160 countries and the millions of businesses we have. BOV Platform is building the framework that makes this possible without a new (or at most minimal) codebase per market and the interesting problems stack up:

• Configuration-driven versioned rules at scale. How do we express what KYC do we need for entity type country industry partner risk tier as data hot-reloadable auditable and safe to change weekly while giving regulators a clean audit trail of which version passed which customer

• Distributed decisioning under real-world latency. A single verification decision fans out to 10 internal services and external vendors (registry lookups sanctions PEP document verification ML models). Sagas idempotency timeouts and graceful degradation all matter because we couldnt reach the sanctions provider isnt an…