Senior Backend Engineer — Risk Platform & Scale

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Risk Domain to help design and build a unified risk platform that unifies data and decision-making across identity verification, fraud detection, and compliance. You will craft foundational services used by multiple teams to launch features across global markets.

You will own critical projects, collaborate with platform and product teams, prototype quickly, and refine approaches into robust, scalable tooling solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages like Java, Python or Go.
• Experience building high-throughput systems and keeping services fast and reliable.
• Deep interest in system design and building scalable platforms.
• Ability to build meaningful infrastructure and enable other teams.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of multiplier-type projects to enhance codebase management and automation.
• Collaborate with platform, product teams, engineers, leads and PMs to deliver tooling solutions.
• Prototype solutions quickly, then refine into robust, scalable tools.
• Work with other engineers to foster a collaborative culture and data-driven decisions.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

System design

Scalability

Infrastructure

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Risk Domain to help design and build a unified risk platform that unifies data and decision-making across identity verification, fraud detection, and compliance. You will craft foundational services used by multiple teams to launch features across global markets.

You will own critical projects, collaborate with platform and product teams, prototype quickly, and refine approaches into robust, scalable tooling solutions.