Senior Engineering Lead - Identities and Attributes

Wise

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Budapest Posted 83 days ago
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TL;DR

The position of Senior Engineering Lead at Wise’s Identity Risk Platform squad involves leading a critical team responsible for the core identity layer that underpins all risk, onboarding, and servicing decisions globally. Day-to-day responsibilities include architecting high-throughput, low-latency services, ensuring clean API contracts, managing data integrity across its lifecycle, and driving technical standards for data governance. The role demands expertise in Java, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines, along with experience in schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization. As a leader, you will hire and mentor engineers while fostering a high-performance culture within the Identity Risk Platform team, ensuring alignment with strategic business needs and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Java REST APIs microservices CI/CD Redis Valkey ACID-compliant databases partitioning read-replicas sharding aggregation pipelines Distributed systems high scalability systems Mentoring Data Lineage Data Quality Auditability

What you'll do

  • Define and evolve robust API contracts and data schemas for identity domains.
  • Ensure high availability and low latency of critical risk services through architectural design.
  • Hire, mentor, and lead a multi-level engineering team to scale the Identity Risk Platform.
  • Establish technical standards for data lineage, quality, and auditability within the platform.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface between Product squads, Risk/FinCrime, and Verification providers.

What we're looking for

  • Strong hands-on technical experience in Java and modern technology stacks including REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Expertise in schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, partitioning, and read-replicas for scalable data management.
  • Proven leadership and mentoring skills for software engineers in a multi-level engineering team.
  • Experience building and scaling distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures.
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Market check

Salary context

This listing doesn't show a salary. Similar roles on FindRole typically pay $131,000–$225,100.

Peer median band

$131,000–$225,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$143,248–$221,268

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Wise

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a global technology company specializing in international money transfers and multi-currency accounts, offering transparent low-cost foreign exchange for individuals and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & International Payments

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