• Join the Platform Engineering team in the Risk Domain, building the systems that make safe, global products possible at Wise.
• Design a centralised risk platform that unifies data and decision-making across identity verification, fraud detection, compliance, and more.
• Build foundational services that other teams rely on to launch features across global markets — your work will scale trust, not just technology.
• Work hybrid from Wise's London office.
📋 Job Requirements
• Have strong proficiency in backend programming languages like Java, Python, or Go.
• Have a passion for building at scale — have worked on high-throughput systems and know what it takes to keep services fast and reliable.
• Have a deep interest in system design — think in terms of platforms, not just features.
• Have a desire to build meaningful infrastructure — care about enabling others, not just shipping your own code.
• Communicate excellently in both verbal and written form, conveying technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Have experience working in fintech or high-trust domains like risk, identity, or compliance.
• Bring experience with messaging systems such as Kafka.
• Have experience building centralised platforms that unify data and decision-making across multiple domains.
• Bring experience enabling product teams to launch faster with built-in risk or compliance tooling.
• Have experience building platform infrastructure from the ground up.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Build a centralised risk platform that acts as the connective tissue between teams working on money movement, regional expansion, and customer safety.
• Accelerate delivery by enabling product teams to launch faster with built-in risk tooling.
• Empower risk teams by giving them the systems they need to assess, respond, and protect without blocking development.
• Drive real impact — your work will directly reduce fraud, improve trust, and help Wise scale safely.
• Craft foundational services at the intersection of Product and Risk that allow internal teams to ship faster, safer, and smarter.
We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.
😃 What Wise offers
• Earn £87,000–£111,000 plus RSUs.
• Build a platform from the ground up with the support and reach of a product org that ships globally.
• Work at the intersection of Product and Risk, building systems that scale trust.
• Join a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
💖 What makes Wise unique
Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money. 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. The Platform Engineering team in the Risk Domain is designing a centralised risk platform that unifies data and decision-making across identity verification, fraud detection, compliance, and more.
💬 What employees say
"Wise is a great Company, with a great culture and great transparency. It lives up to the mission of fast, cheap, high-quality currency transfers; I personally like the good vibes here with a lot of passion."
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