# Europe Risk And Controls Senior Software Engineer II

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £111,000- £145,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Product Engineer in Wise's Europe Risk & Controls team, you'll take full end-to-end ownership of our core risk architecture.

You'll architect high-throughput, event-driven engines that ensure every risk decision is bulletproof: consistent, explainable, and real-time auditable.

Responsibilities:

- System Architecture: Design and scale distributed systems powering customer due diligence (CDD/EDD) and fincrime detection.

- Technical Leadership: Set technical strategy, make critical architectural calls, and mentor senior talent.

- Domain Impact: Partner directly with Product, Compliance, and Data Science to translate regulatory complexity into high-performance code.

Qualifications:

- Core Stack: 7+ years of deep Java expertise leveraging Spring Boot.

- Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience building event-driven architectures with Kafka and SQL.

- Product Ownership: Direct end-to-end execution,owning systems from initial design to live production metrics.

- Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to translate complex distributed architecture concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

- CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience with modern continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

- Domain Bonus: Prior experience in AML, KYC, or fraud prevention is a massive plus.

Benefits:

- Starting salary: £111,000- £145,000 + RSUs

- Wise Benefits

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- SQL
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- AML
- KYC
- fraud prevention

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