Engineering Lead - AML Handling team

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Tallinn, Harju Maakond
Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Wise is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in the world and we’re on a mission to make money without borders a new norm
The Role
As an Engineering Lead in the AML Handling team, you will oversee the health and productivity of engineers, provide architectural feedback, and be involved in coding. You will work closely with backend engineers and data scientists to enhance case handling for AML operations, leveraging AI and Machine Learning.
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Company Description

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 life 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.

Job Description

The team you will join: AML Handling

The AML Handling team within the Financial Crime prevention squad focuses on providing back-office tooling for AML operational teams. As a Member of this team, you will be working on improving case handling experience for a growing group of a 200 strong operations team, and enable operational teams to get faster in solving cases, better in detecting Money Laundering activity in Wise.

Our main vision points are:

We enable a Unified back-office experience for AML agents, such that Agents working on AML Cases have the right information presented to them at the right time.

We leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to automate all time intensive agent tasks, and unblock agent productivity.

We enable Operations to create investigation flows instantly to respond to emerging trends and changes.

Overall the AML Handling team will be instrumental in enabling operations to achieve instant queues, block good customers for the least amount of time, and offer a smooth operational experience for AML agents.

Qualifications

As an engineering lead, you'll join a team that helps investigate Money Loundering schemes. You'll work alongside backend engineers and data scientists, collaborating with data analysts, product managers, and engineers across other departments at Wise.

What does it take?

  • Being responsible for the overall health and productivity of the engineers within your team

  • Providing feedback on architecture and approach and helping teams make data-driven decisions 

  • Having an overview of what’s happening across the organisation and thinking about engineering as a whole 

  • Rolling your sleeves up and coding, being involved in the entire process


Is that you?

  • Experience leading, coaching and mentoring driven and high performing teams

  • A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems 

  • Experience working with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservices architecture 

  • Comfortable with SQL databases

  • Experience using LLMs in production


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Additional Information

Interested? Find out more

  • The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.

  • Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

  • Wise Engineering

What we offer:

  • Benefits in our Estonia office

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Top Skills

Java

What the Team is Saying

The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
6,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.

People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.

Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.

For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.

We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.

Why Work With Us

We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to!

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