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Senior Backend Engineer Risk Domain

Wise


Job Location:

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 27 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 24 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What will you be working on

Were looking for engineers who are passionate about designing scalable platforms and love solving real-world problems with technology. If youre excited by the idea of building infrastructure that empowers teams and accelerates product development without compromising on trust or safety this role is for you.

The Role: Senior Engineering in the Risk Domain

As part of our Platform Engineering team youll be at the intersection of Product and Risk crafting systems that allow internal teams to ship faster safer and smarter. You wont just be writing code. Youll be building foundational services that other teams rely on to launch features across global markets.

Were designing a centralised risk platform a system that unifies data and decision-making across identity verification fraud detection compliance and more. This platform acts as the connective tissue between teams working on money movement regional expansion and customer safety.

Our team builds a unified platform for controlling customers product eligibility in accordance with regional compliance risk and product functions.

 

As a Senior Software Engineer you will:

  • Take ownership of critical multiplier-type projects that significantly enhance our codebase management and automation capabilities.

  • Collaborate closely with platform and product teams engineers leads and product managers to deliver impactful tooling solutions.

  • Prototype solutions quickly and efficiently adopting a quick and dirty approach initially and refine them into robust scalable tools once the optimal approach is identified.

  • Work alongside other engineers in the team fostering a collaborative culture..

  • Provide feedback on technical design decisions and approach and help the team make data-driven decisions.


Qualifications :

  • You are an expert in your technical discipline.

  • You understand your teams technical product and business domain.

  • You design systems with long-term change and scale in mind.

  • You mentor and coach other engineers.

  • You have 5 years of experience building backend systems distributed systems or data-intensive systems.

  • Experience with working in product engineering teams

  • Experience running machine learning or large language models in production is preferred but not required.


Additional Information :

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

Were 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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Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold 40+ currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cro ... View more

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