# Staff Software Engineer - APAC Onboarding and KYC

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 184,800 - 230,400 SGD base per annum + RSUs
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Wise is on a mission to make money borderless, instant, and convenient for millions of people and businesses worldwide. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our APAC (Asia Pacific) Onboarding and KYC team in Singapore.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be contributing to the team by designing scalable onboarding solutions tailored to diverse APAC markets, reducing redundancies and driving up conversion rates. You will implement scalable KYC controls across multiple regulatory markets with minimal friction in the customer journey. Additionally, you will build and maintain automations and tooling to process customer documents and other sensitive identity data in a scalable and cost-efficient way. You will utilise the observability stack and analytics to identify gaps and unlock new opportunities for growth and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

- Design scalable onboarding solutions tailored to diverse APAC markets, reducing redundancies and driving up conversion rates

- Implement scalable KYC controls across multiple regulatory markets with minimal friction in the customer journey

- Build and maintain automations and tooling to process customer documents and other sensitive identity data in a scalable and cost-efficient way

- Utilise the observability stack and analytics to identify gaps, and unlock new opportunities for growth and operational excellence

- Help with the technical roadmap of the team and ensure its progress and delivery

Qualifications:

- At least 10 years of professional experience in software engineering or related roles, with a proven track record of delivering high-impact, production-grade systems

- Extensive experience with JVM-based systems (Java 17+) and the Spring Boot ecosystem

- Experience leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale systems that have had a measurable impact on business outcomes

- At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, where you were leading project teams and setting technical direction for the team

- Deep expertise in distributed systems and have designed highly available, fault-tolerant services

- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, schema design, and query optimisation

- Strong product mindset, using data-driven insights to fix complex customer pain points

- Ability to articulate high-level technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders and provide mentorship to Senior engineers

- Familiarity with deployment frameworks and experience managing the full lifecycle of a service, from design to deployment to production observability

Benefits:

- Licence to lead large-sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers

- Ownership of the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward

- Opportunity to propose ideas to improve and grow your team's product

- Long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure

- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth and effective delivery

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## Skills

### Required
- Java 17+
- Spring Boot
- distributed systems
- relational databases
- non-relational databases
- schema design
- query optimisation
- deployment frameworks

### Nice to have
- financial systems
- third-party verification providers
- KYC workflows

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