Job Description

Team you will be joining: AML team

The AML team at Wise is dedicated to safeguarding our platform against Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Human Trafficking, ensuring the protection of our legitimate customers. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning, real-time transaction monitoring, and data analysis, our team is responsible for developing and enhancing AML detection systems. Software engineers, data analysts, and data scientists collaborate on a daily basis to continuously improve our systems and provide support to our AML investigation team.

Our main vision points are:

Build a globally scalable AML prevention and detection engine to maintain Wise as a secure environment for our legitimate customers.

• Utilise machine learning techniques to identify potential risks associated with customer activity.

• Foster a strong partnership between our AML investigators and the product team to develop solutions that leverage the expertise of fraud prevention specialists.

• Not only meet the requirements set by regulators and auditors but also surpass their expectations.

Qualifications

Is that you?

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages. 

• 2+ years of experience in architecting big data systems with proven ability to propose and implement technical solutions that balance latency and throughput, particularly for real-time systems under high transaction loads.

• Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps, scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.

• Experience in up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineer via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow

• You are a proactive, effective communicator who is able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences and eager to learn new domains and have a strong bias towards action.

• Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams is a nice-to-have.

What does success look like? 

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and suggesting future challenges

• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 

• You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company

• You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued

• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money product that impacts millions of customers

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

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

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