Job Description
hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
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Company Description
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
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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.
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As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.
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More about our mission and what we offer.
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Job Description
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About the role:
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Join us as a Senior Software Engineer in our critical Account Integrity team. This is a high-impact engineering role with a strong product focus, dedicated to solving complex, real-world adversarial problems to directly protect our global customer base.
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How we work:
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The Account Integrity Team
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The Account Integrity 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.
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What will you be working on?
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This defining role involves continuously improving our financial crime prevention infrastructure and systems. You will deliver a direct, measurable impact on customer security by taking end-to-end ownership of projects focused on:
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- n Building and refining critical controls to protect Wise customers accounts from account takeovers.
- n Drive Backend and Frontend for our crime prevention and detection systems – You will be working 80% of the time on a backend and 20% on the frontend
- n You will be delivering a tangible, real-world impact by securing customers' money, accelerating product growth by raising automation levels, and helping us engineer a world-class money transfer product.
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What do you need?
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- n 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 based frontend applications, Javascript / Typescript.
- n System Design & Operation: Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, Distributed, and Concurrent Systems.
- n Product Ownership: A strong product mindset, accountability, and the ability to drive projects independently, making data-driven decisions with the customer in mind.
- n Data Proficiency: Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including query optimisation and designing resilient schemas.
- n Code Quality: Exceptional fundamentals, sharp problem-solving ability, and a commitment to Test Driven Development and best coding practices.
- n Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts across teams (Product, Data Science, Investigations).
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Nice to Have:
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- n Familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle (data pipelines, feature engineering, and deploying ML systems into production).
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Interested? Find out more:
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- n How we work – a practical guide
- n DEI @ Wise
- n Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
- n See what it's like to work at Wise London!
- n Our Engineering career map
- n Wise Engineering –
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What do we offer:
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- n Starting salary: £87,500 – 111,000 + RSUs
- n Wise Benefits
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Additional Information
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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.
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We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. n 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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If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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