At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Scam Prevention team to build and enhance systems that protect customers from financial crime.
- Company: Wise, a global tech company focused on making money management easy and accessible for everyone.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by safeguarding customers' money using cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java, system design, and a strong product mindset.
The predicted salary is between 87000 - 111000 £ per year.
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:
Join us as a Software Engineer in our critical Scam Prevention team. This is a high-impact engineering role focused on solving complex, real-world adversarial problems to protect our global customer base.
The Scam Prevention team is 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.
What will you be working on?
- Continuously improving our financial crime prevention infrastructure and systems.
- Building and refining critical controls to prevent Wise customers from scams.
- Driving Backend and Frontend for our scam prevention and detection systems - 80% backend and 20% frontend.
- Delivering a tangible impact by securing customers' money and accelerating product growth.
What do you need?
- Engineering Expertise: Professional experience with Java or other JVM-based languages, including the Spring framework. Experience building scalable web applications, ideally using React based frontend applications, Javascript / Typescript.
- System Design & Operation: Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, Distributed, and Concurrent Systems.
- Product Ownership: A strong product mindset, accountability, and the ability to drive projects independently.
- 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.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle (data pipelines, feature engineering, and deploying ML systems into production).
What do we offer: Starting salary: £87,000 - £111,000
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
