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Senior Software Engineer I - Receive

Hybrid in London·Full-time·Added 4 months ago

This job was published 4 months ago

Wise

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Overview

Job details

  • £87,000 - £111,000 a year

    Gross, as stated in the ad.

    About £5,080 - £6,060 a month after tax.

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Be near London for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

Nice to have

  • Understanding of basic machine learning concepts and experience building data pipelines.

  • Mentorship experience, helping team members grow and contributing to a culture of continuous learning.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

The role

Team you will be working with: Receive Risk

The Receive Risk team is part of Acquiring Squad, in the Global Product tribe, dedicated to ensuring customers can receive money quickly and securely, using our full suite of Acquiring products. We build smart fraud detection and prevention systems to stop scammers and fraudsters from exploiting Wise or defrauding our customers.

Supporting our full suite of Acquiring products — QuickPay, Payment links, Invoices, e-commerce, and more — we work closely with our financial crime teams to strike the perfect balance: seamless experiences for legitimate users, strong barriers against bad actors.

What will you be working on?

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to build a fraud engine that will help us ship new products and features quickly while keeping risk and cost low. This will involve working closely with Product, Data Science, Fraud Prevention Analysts and our Fraud agents to strike the right balance between scaling quickly and mitigating risk efficiently.

What do you need?

  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems, including microservices architecture and backend services supporting large-scale traffic.

  • Proven ability to deliver high-performance, low-latency systems with a focus on speed, scalability, and reliability.

  • Strong product-oriented mindset, with end-to-enpd ownership of features and close collaboration across teams.

  • Proficiency in Java (preferred) or solid experience with similar backend programming languages.

  • Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, and strong knowledge of relational databases (SQL).

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, combined with a growth mindset and focus on delivering user and business value.

Hiring process

3 steps2 interviewsa task to do
  1. Apply

  2. Recruiter conversation

    With a recruiter · Phone call

    Phone conversation about your experience, motivations and knowledge of Wise; the recruiter explains the role and next steps.

  3. Technical test

    Not every role

    Depending on the role: a case study, take-home challenge or technical test; software engineers do a paired coding exercise.

  4. Meet the team

    With a team members and your Lead · Video call

    Open-ended and scenario-based questions with the team you would join and your Lead, including a values-fit assessment.

  5. Offer

  • Interviews mostly take place over Zoom; some interviewers ask for in-person interviews.
  • An AI note-taker (Metaview) may record interviews; participation is optional.

About Wise

Industry
Fintech
Headquarters
London, UK
Website
wise.com

In their own words

About the company & team

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

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.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

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.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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