12 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and refine controls that protect Wise customer accounts from account takeovers.
- Develop backend and frontend crime-prevention and detection systems, with approximately 80% backend and 20% frontend work.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects that improve financial crime prevention infrastructure and systems.
- Design and operate CI/CD pipelines and distributed, concurrent systems.
- Design resilient database schemas and optimize queries.
- Make data-driven decisions with a strong customer and product focus.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Investigations teams.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Java or other JVM-based languages and the Spring framework.
- Experience building and designing scalable web applications that handle large amounts of traffic.
- Experience with React-based frontend applications and JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and distributed, 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 best coding practices.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts across teams.
- Preferred: familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle, including data pipelines, feature engineering, and deploying ML systems into production.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87,500–£111,000 plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement in London.
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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.