At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Scam Prevention team to build and refine systems that protect customers from financial scams.
- Company: Wise, a global tech company revolutionising money management.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive team environment with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by safeguarding customers' money with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java, scalable web applications, and strong problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 111000 - 145000 £ per year.
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.
Job Description
Join us as a Software Engineer in our critical Scam Prevention team.
This high-impact engineering role has a strong product focus, dedicated to solving complex, real-world adversarial problems to directly protect our global customer base.
About the Role
The Scam Prevention team is on the front lines, dedicated to safeguarding our platform against sophisticated financial crime.
We leverage cutting‑edge machine learning, real‑time transaction monitoring, and advanced data analysis to create robust controls and detection capabilities.
Our vision is to build a globally scalable fraud prevention engine that protects customer accounts, prevents scams, and consistently surpasses regulatory expectations.
What will you be working on?
- Building and refining critical controls to prevent Wise customers from scams.
- Driving backend and frontend development for our scam prevention and detection systems – you will spend about 80% of your time on backend work and 20% on frontend.
- Delivering tangible, real‑world impact by securing customers’ money, accelerating product growth through increased automation, and helping engineer a world‑class money transfer product.
What do you need?
- Engineering expertise: professional experience with Java or other JVM‑based languages, including the Spring framework.
Experience building and designing scalable web applications that handle large amounts of traffic, ideally using React for frontend and Javascript/Typescript.
- System design & operation: proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, distributed, and concurrent systems.
- Product ownership: strong product mindset, accountability, and the ability to drive projects independently, making data‑driven decisions with the customer in mind.
- Data proficiency: experience with relational and non‑relational databases, including query optimisation and designing resilient schemas.
- Code quality: exceptional fundamentals, sharp problem‑solving ability, and a commitment to test‑driven development and best coding practices.
- Collaboration: excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts across teams (Product, Data Science, Investigations).
- Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle (data pipelines, feature engineering, and deploying ML systems into production).
- What do we offer
- Wise benefits.
- Additional Information
We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We’re proud to have a truly international team and celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and ensure every Wiser feels respected and empowered to contribute towards our mission.
For more information about the role and about working at Wise, please visit Wise. Jobs.
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