Senior Engineering Manager II - Risk API - Servicing Platform in London

This job is with Wise, an inclusive employer and a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. Wise is on a mission to make lives easier and save money for people and businesses sending money internationally.

About the role:

We are looking for a highly accomplished Senior Engineering Lead to take the helm of our newly formed Risk API Team within the Servicing Platform Squad. This is a critical, high-impact leadership role where you will simultaneously drive architectural strategy and scale the team responsible for the real-time transaction and user behaviour risk assessment platform.

Key Leadership Focus

• Architectural Ownership: You will be the technical authority responsible for the design, delivery, and operational excellence of the high-throughput Risk API.
• Domain Bridge: You will operate as the primary technical interface between fast-moving Product teams and compliance-critical Financial Crime teams, ensuring clean, scalable API contracts and data governance.
• Team Foundation & Growth: You will be instrumental in hiring, mentoring, and leading the team, defining the engineering standards and best practices that will serve as the foundation for the entire Risk Assessment Group.
• Data Integrity & Scale: Your mandate includes enforcing robust Data Quality and Data Lineage standards across the platform, building solutions that can scale rapidly across multiple risk domains.

You won't just be managing a platform; you'll be designing the core risk infrastructure and leading the team that protects the company and its customers on a massive scale.

What You Will Be Working On

• Architecting the Risk Contract: Leading the design and implementation of the core Risk API, defining robust API contracts and data schemas that serve as the critical interface between Product features and our FinCrime defence systems.
• Defining the Risk Assessment Ledger: Formalizing technical frameworks for the immutable logging of all platform-wide risk evaluations, ensuring absolute auditability and transparency.
• Scaling the Team and Culture: Actively managing and mentoring the current engineering team while driving the recruitment strategy to grow the team.
• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Serving as the key technical partner to Product, FinCrime, and other Engineering Leads, championing the architectural vision for the platform.
• Platform Resilience: Ensuring the platform is built for high availability, low latency, and massive scale, managing the operational health of a critical, real-time risk service.

What We Are Looking For

• Strategic Autonomy and Ownership: Proven ability to define and fully own the architectural roadmap and delivery pipeline for a mission-critical platform.
• Team and Process Scaling Acumen: Immediate capability to drive the full-cycle hiring process and define the core operating model necessary to scale a newly formed team rapidly.
• Cross-Functional Decision Authority: The skill to step in as the primary technical decision-maker, resolving architectural conflicts and achieving alignment between stakeholders.
• Leveraging Platform Expertise: A clear demonstration of how prior experience in building and operating scalable Product or Service Platforms will be applied to solve complex challenges in the risk domain.

We're people without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. If you're passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you'll fit right in. Qualifications aren't that important to us; if you've got great experience and can articulate your thinking, we'd like to hear from you.

Starting salary: £135,000 - £175,000 + RSU ($86,000 New + $43,000 Annual)

Wise Benefits: We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. Inclusive teams help us live our values and ensure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.