Backend Engineer for Acquiring Risk

About the role

Team you will be working with: Acquiring Risk

The Acquiring Risk team is part of Acquiring Squad in the Global Product tribe dedicated to ensuring customers can receive money quickly and securely using our full suite of Acquiring products. We build smart fraud detection and prevention systems to stop scammers and fraudsters from exploiting Wise or defrauding our customers.

Supporting our full suite of Acquiring products QuickPay Payment links Invoices e-commerce and more we work closely with our financial crime teams to strike the perfect balance: seamless experiences for legitimate users strong barriers against bad actors.

How we work

Our team is focused on building a great Acquiring experience for our business customers. To achieve this we prioritise projects using a mix of data and intuition focus on good execution and learn from our mistakes.

What will you be working on

Were looking for a Backend Engineer to build a fraud engine that will help us ship new products and features quickly while keeping risk and cost low. This will involve working closely with Product Data Science Fraud Prevention Analysts and our Fraud agents to strike the right balance between scaling quickly and mitigating risk efficiently.

Qualifications :

What do you need

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems including microservices architecture and backend services supporting large-scale traffic.

• Proven ability to deliver high-performance low-latency systems with a focus on speed scalability and reliability.

• Strong product-oriented mindset with end-to-end ownership of features and good collaboration within the team.

• Proficiency in Java (preferred) or solid experience with similar backend programming languages.

• Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ and strong knowledge of relational databases (SQL).

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills combined with a growth mindset and focus on delivering user and business value.

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of basic machine learning concepts and experience building data pipelines.

Additional Information :

Interested Find out more:

• How we work - a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• See what its like to work at Wise London

• Our engineering career map

Wise Engineering do we offer: 

• Starting salary: 68000 - 87500 RSUs

• Wise Benefits

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time