Engineering Lead - Personal Onboarding Verification

The team you will be joining: Personal Onboarding Verification The Personal Onboarding Verification team is part of the Global KYC and Onboarding Squad. The team is responsible for KYC (Know Your Customer) compliance procedures that our customers go through before using our products. The team achieves this by building systems for identity verification in collaboration with data scientists, data analysts and third parties. Together we’re using computer vision, optical character recognition (OCR), biometrics & facial recognition, large-scale data analytics, and machine learning (ML) models.

Wise operates at global scale, onboarding millions of new customers each year in addition to supporting the needs of our large existing customer-base. Our products provide coverage across 160+ countries and over 40 currencies. The Personal Onboarding Verification team is at the centre of that, building systems that cut through the operational complexity of working under 70+ financial licenses while providing a frictionless onboarding experience wherever in the world our customers may be.

Having product-focused and forward-thinking engineers has allowed Wise to cater to the needs of customers unlike any other business. We already have a world-leading platform and product, but there is more to do.

Your mission

As an Engineering Lead for Personal Onboarding Verification, you will:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, supporting their growth and empowering them to do their best work.
• Be an active contributor to delivery. Support day-to-day execution, get hands-on when the team needs it, and stay in touch with the technology stack. You’ll lead by example.
• Work closely with the function leads in the team (Product, Design, Analytics, Data Science) and your team members to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
• Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
• Have a deep understanding of the tech and product of your teams - building out a clear tech strategy that follows from our product and marketing goals, setting high standards for quality, leading by example.
• Own the health and productivity of the team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other engineering leads and teams across the Squad and other Wise teams to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.