Wise Tech Stack

Cross-border payments platform processing £9B monthly across 160+ countries

Financial Services London 5,001–10,000 employees Founded 2011 Privately Held

Wise operates a global fintech infrastructure handling cross-border transactions at scale, built on Java, Kotlin, Spring, and PostgreSQL with data pipelines powered by Apache Airflow and Looker. The company is actively adopting dbt while maintaining a sprawling compliance and risk tech footprint—regulatory compliance frameworks, financial crime detection, and regulatory reporting systems dominate active projects. This engineering-to-compliance ratio reflects a maturing post-IPO fintech: rapid scaling of payment volume colliding with multi-jurisdiction regulatory overhead.

Tech Stack 149 technologies

Core StackJava Kotlin Spring Python Apache Airflow Looker Superset PostgreSQL MariaDB MongoDB Redis Terraform Ansible AWS Go Kafka Swift Kubernetes SageMaker MLflow Wise Platform SQL R GCP ISO 20022 Spring Boot Ray Bedrock ChatGPT Google Gemini+114 more

Adoptingdbt

What Wise Is Building

◆Challenges

Managing regulatory risk
Scaling qa operations
Mitigating financial crime risks
Risk mitigation
Compliance with local regulations
Team scaling
Improving audit efficiency
Reducing operational costs
Improving sales processes
Meeting regulatory requirements

▲Active Projects

Product launches
Regulatory compliance oversight framework development
Financial crime platform
Scale partner onboarding
Model development
Regulatory reporting
Expense management
Critical data pipelines and dashboards
Regulatory risk remediation
New product launch risk assessment

Hiring Activity

Steady600 roles · 230 in 30d

Department

Engineering

Product

Ops

Finance

Marketing

Legal

Data

Support

Seniority

Senior

274

Lead

113

Mid

Manager

Staff

Junior

Director

Principal

Notable leadership hires: Banking Expansion Lead, Payment Operations Head, Engineering Lead, Compliance Lead, Risk Lead

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About Wise

Wise is a London-based fintech company that moved £9 billion in cross-border payments last month for 16 million users and businesses across 160+ countries in 40+ currencies. The platform serves three customer segments: retail users moving money abroad, businesses managing multi-currency operations, and enterprise clients leveraging Wise's payment infrastructure for their own cross-border rails. Founded in 2011, publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange, and profitable, the company now spans 5,001–10,000 employees across 18 countries with active hiring in the UK, US, India, Singapore, Brazil, and other major markets. Core products include multi-currency accounts, peer-to-peer transfers, foreign exchange, and expense management tools.

HeadquartersLondon

Company Size5,001–10,000 employees

Founded2011

Hiring MarketsUnited Kingdom, Belgium, Hungary, Singapore, United States, Brazil, India, Estonia

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Wise use?

Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Apache Airflow, Looker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, and ML tools including SageMaker, MLflow, Ray, and Bedrock. Also uses ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Where is Wise headquartered and hiring?

Headquartered in London. Actively hiring across 18 countries: UK, US, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Hungary, Estonia, Japan, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, China, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Malaysia.