Staff Full Stack Engineer - Onboarding and KYC
Company: Wise
Location: Hyderabad, India
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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.
Learn more about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
We're looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our APAC (Asia Pacific) Onboarding and KYC team in the Hyderabad office.
APAC customers are a strong contributor to Wise's growth. A big part of this growth comes from new customer acquisitions, so having a fast, convenient, and delightful customer onboarding journey is central to this growth. That’s the mission of the APAC Onboarding team.
Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the team:
- 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
A bit about you:
- You have at least 8 years of professional experience in software engineering or related roles, with a proven track record of delivering high-impact, production-grade systems.
- You have extensive experience with JVM-based systems (Java 17+) and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
- You have led the architecture and delivery of large-scale systems that have had a measurable impact on business outcomes beyond a single team.
- You have spent at least 3 years in a technical leadership role, where you were leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- You possess deep expertise in distributed systems and have designed highly available, fault-tolerant services.
- You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, schema design, and query optimisation.
- You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, using data-driven insights to fix complex customer pain points.
- You can articulate high-level technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders and provide mentorship to Senior engineers.
- You are familiar with deployment frameworks and have experience managing the full lifecycle of a service, from design to deployment to production observability.
Note: We don't expect you to know everything!
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with financial systems, particularly how money moves globally.
- Understanding of the technical challenges of integrating third-party verification providers, managing sensitive identity, and building modular KYC workflows.
What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise
We don't measure seniority purely by years of experience, but also by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Staff Software Engineer at Wise, you will:
- Lead large (>10 engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers.
- Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward.
- Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product.
- Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure.
- Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling.
- Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery.
For more details on expectations, view our Engineering Career Map.
Compensation
Salary: INR 7,800,000 – INR 11,500,000
How to Apply
Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise, visit Wise.Jobs. Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.