# Senior Backend Engineer - Risk Domain

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000158104619-senior-backend-engineer-risk-domain?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_303ea08c-cd8

## Description

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

We're looking for engineers who are passionate about designing scalable platforms and love solving real-world problems with technology. As part of our team, you'll be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

**The Role: Senior Engineering in the Risk Domain**

As part of our Platform Engineering team, you'll be at the intersection of Product and Risk – crafting systems that allow internal teams to ship faster, safer, and smarter. You'll be building foundational services that other teams rely on to launch features across global markets.

We're 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.

**Responsibilities**

- 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**

- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages like Java, Python or Go.

- Passion for building at scale – You've worked on high-throughput systems and know what it takes to keep services fast and reliable.

- Deep interest in system design – You think in terms of platforms, not just features.

- A desire to build meaningful infrastructure – You care about enabling others, not just shipping your own code.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Nice to Have**

- Experience working in fintech or high-trust domains like risk, identity, or compliance.

- Experience in messaging systems such as Kafka is a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Go
- system design
- high-throughput systems
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- fintech
- risk
- identity
- compliance
- Kafka

---

Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000158104619-senior-backend-engineer-risk-domain?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)