# Backend Engineer - North America Risk Prevention

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Budapest
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Backend Engineer on our North America Risk Prevention team, you will help create a new network for the world's money. Our mission is to protect customers and the business by staying ahead of financial crime.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement technical solutions to optimize for throughput and speed, ensuring p99 end-to-end latency under 1 second for real-time risk and fraud checks

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to design new rules, refine ML models, and provide critical support to chargeback and fraud investigation teams

- Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial idea to monitoring in production

- Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Requirements:

- 4+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, or other JVM-based languages, with deep knowledge of the Spring framework

- Experience with JDBC, database internals, and query optimization

- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams, or Apache Flink for real-time event processing

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and designing scalable, resilient distributed systems

- Strong focus on customer experience and data-driven decision making

Nice to Have:

- Familiarity with machine learning basics, including data pipelines and feature engineering

- Experience with OLAP databases or data lakes, such as Apache Iceberg

What Success Looks Like:

- Direct impact on preventing financial crime and keeping good customers happy

- Helping to raise the automation level of our platform and prepare for new risk types in the US and Canada

- Contributing to a culture of operational excellence and global collaboration

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring framework
- JDBC
- database internals
- query optimization
- Kafka
- Kafka Streams
- Apache Flink
- CI/CD pipelines
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- machine learning
- data pipelines
- feature engineering
- OLAP databases
- data lakes
- Apache Iceberg

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