# Engineering Lead - Verification Platform

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Wise is on a mission to build money without borders , instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free. You will be part of the Business Onboarding Verification (BOV) organisation, leading the Verification Platform team in London.

The team owns the platform rails that Business verification is built on, providing the BOV platform for onboarding business, requirement evaluation, collection, review, unified vendor integrations, and repapering rails.

As the Engineering Lead for BOV Platform, your mission is to:

- Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers.

- Own the technical roadmap for the BOV platform, addressing real reliability, security, and scalability concerns.

- Partner with BOV Global, Personal Onboarding, Wise Platform Verification, and Mitigation Handling to ensure the platform serves real product needs.

- Be an active contributor to delivery, supporting day-to-day execution, and staying in touch with the technology stack.

- Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, bottom-up decision-making, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Ensure operational excellence, including on-call rotas, SLAs, documentation, and observability for platform services.

The team faces complex problems, such as:

- Configuration-driven, versioned rules at scale.

- Distributed decisioning under real-world latency.

- Consistency vs. availability on the KYC decision path.

- Event-driven re-evaluation and repapering.

- ML/AI in the loop , safely.

You will need to have:

- Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineers.

- Experience building and leading platform/infrastructure 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.

- Excellent communication skills.

As an Engineering Lead at Wise, you can expect to:

- Lead a cross-functional platform team with a clear scale-up path.

- Own the technical roadmap and vision for your team.

- Propose ideas to improve and grow the BOV platform.

- Build strong relationships with stakeholders.

- Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers.

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- distributed systems
- high-throughput services
- event-driven architectures
- relational databases
- non-relational databases
- query optimisation
- schema design

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