Engineering Lead I - Trust & Safety (Financial crime)

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

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

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

The team you will join: Trust & Safety team

Trust & Safety is dedicated to safeguarding our platform against financial crime and ensuring the protection of our legitimate customers. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning, real-time transaction monitoring and data analysis, our team is responsible for building controls to keep Wise accounts safe. 

What will you be working on :

• Build a globally scalable real-time payment fraud prevention system to keep Wise as a secure environment for our customers.

• Utilise machine learning techniques to identify potential risks associated with customer activity.

• Foster a strong partnership between our investigators and the product team to develop solutions that leverage the expertise of fraud prevention specialists.

• Not only meet the requirements set by regulators and auditors but raise the standard in the global financial crime prevention industry.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding the team on architectural design, code reviews, and best practices.

• Serve as a technical expert for the Trust & Safety domain, working together with Product Manager to create vision and roadmap and 

• helping to shape the future of Wise’s financial crime prevention squad, focusing on the safety of customer funds balanced with great product experience.

• Drive initiatives to improve the reliability and scalability of our services

• Lead the development of new solutions, such as a creation of new real-time check engines, customer facing controls and external vendor integrations.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers (junior and senior), fostering a supportive environment that promotes technical growth.

• Work closely with other Engineering Leads, Staff Engineers, and Product to shape the team's and squad's technical roadmaps.

• Help the team navigate complex priorities and make trade-offs to deliver solutions that reduce risk and unlock growth.

• Act as a key representative of the team, collaborating with stakeholders across the company.

What do you need?

• Strong background in software engineering, with experience designing and building complex, scalable systems. Expert in delivering reliable and robust services in a production environment.

• Comfortable working on a complex domain and guiding a team through technical challenges.

• Ability to lead by example, inspiring your team to produce high-quality, maintainable code.

• Product Mindset - strong sense of ownership and the ability to think beyond technical implementation to understand how your work impacts the business and our customers.

• Experience working closely with product and stakeholders to define requirements and prioritise the most impactful work.

• Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels.

• Excellent communicator, capable of articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Haves: 

• Experience leading a team in a payments, financial crime, or other complex, high-stakes domain.

• Prior experience working on a team with a global, distributed setup.

• Experience building systems that serve enterprise clients at scale.

• Previous experience scaling teams and systems for global reach.

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• Our Engineering career map

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: 

• Starting salary: £100,000-£125,000 + RSU

• Wise Benefits

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For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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