7 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and refine controls protecting customer accounts from account takeovers.
- Develop financial crime prevention and detection systems, working approximately 80% backend and 20% frontend.
- Design and operate scalable web applications, distributed systems, concurrent systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Own projects end to end and make data-driven product decisions with customer impact in mind.
- Design resilient database schemas and optimize queries.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Investigations teams.
- Help increase automation and improve Wise’s fraud prevention engine.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Java or other JVM-based languages and the Spring framework.
- Experience building and designing scalable web applications handling large volumes of traffic.
- Experience with React-based frontend applications and JavaScript or TypeScript is preferred for the frontend work.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, and concurrent systems.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and resilient schema design.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, problem-solving ability, and commitment to test-driven development and coding best practices.
- Strong product ownership, accountability, independent project execution, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts across teams.
- Familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle, including data pipelines, feature engineering, and deploying ML systems into production, is a nice-to-have.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87,500–£111,000 per year plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
Tech Stack
About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.