Senior Software Engineer - AML - Java

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

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

The AML Risk team, within the AML Squad at Wise, builds systems and controls that detect money laundering and terrorist financing risks. Our work covers Wise's products and regions. We use data and our knowledge of criminal activity to create effective detection controls and useful alerts.

You will be working on designing and building AML detection controls that can evolve and scale. You will own large, impactful projects and their technical roadmaps. You will work with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts, and AML subject matter experts.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build AML detection controls that can evolve and scale.
• Own large projects, their technical roadmaps, and their delivery.
• Shape product decisions and explain the customer problem and expected impact.
• Improve reliability, security, and technical quality.
• Mentor engineers and share knowledge across the team.

The technology you'll work with is Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. You'll work with distributed services, asynchronous processing, and data at scale.

Qualifications:

• You are an expert in your technical discipline.
• You understand your team's technical 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 AML or financial crime is preferred, but not required.
• Experience running machine learning or large language models in production is preferred, but not required.

Impact: Your work will improve how Wise detects financial crime. You will help detect more real risk, reduce false alerts, and avoid unnecessary friction for legitimate customers.