Engineering Lead - Fincrime

As part of Wise's Fincrime team, you will help create a new network for the world's money. The AUP team designs, builds, and operates controls to monitor transactions and customer activity, detecting and preventing prohibited activities.

As the Engineering Lead, you will lead a cross-functional squad, working with data scientists, analysts, compliance managers, and designers. You will partner with your Product Manager, Compliance Lead, and Lead Data Scientist to define the product and technical vision for the team.

Responsibilities:

• Risk Detection: Integrate advanced Machine Learning models and build robust controls to spot AUP violations.
• Supercharge Operations: Architect automated workflows and intuitive internal tooling to reduce the cost per case and median handling times for operations analysts.
• Own the Architecture: Ensure services are highly available, resilient, and secure, with the right monitoring, observability, and decoupled architectures to scale.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing software engineers in an agile environment.
• Solid engineering background with modern languages and understanding of frontend frameworks like React and TypeScript.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, concurrent microservices in a cloud environment.
• Product and risk mindset, with ability to translate complex policy mandates into simple engineering milestones.
• Excellent communication skills to align engineers, data scientists, and non-technical business partners.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience working in FinTech, Financial Crime, or related fields.
• Experience partnering with Data Scientists to productionalize and scale Machine Learning models.
• Familiarity with Cloud Infrastructure and modern DevOps tooling.
• Experience building or optimizing high-volume case-management platforms or operational back-office tools.

Benefits:

• Starting salary: 80,000 - 100,000 EUR annual gross + RSUs
• Wise Benefits