Engineering Lead - AML

About the role

Wise is looking for an Engineering Lead to join its AML Squad and shape how it detects money laundering and terrorist financing risk across its products and regions. The role leads an existing cross-functional team responsible for risk detection and alert creation, combining engineering leadership with product thinking and people leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team that owns AML risk detection and alert creation, setting technical direction and the roadmap.
• Build reliable, scalable systems that support and evolve Wise's AML controls.
• Develop new detection capabilities for emerging patterns of criminal activity.
• Act as technical expert for AML risk detection and alert creation, guiding the squad's approach and standards.
• Design systems and tooling that make it easier to create, test, iterate and measure the impact of AML controls.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, consistency, observability and operational reliability.
• Lead, coach and mentor engineers across experience levels, and partner with product managers, data scientists, analysts and AML experts on priorities.
• Represent the team across Wise, aligning stakeholders and leading projects from idea to release.

Required profile

• Strong software engineering background, with experience designing and building complex systems at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud architecture; able to explain trade-offs and make architectural decisions.
• Comfortable working with data to understand problems and evaluate outcomes.
• Experience in payments, fintech, financial crime or another complex, high-stakes domain; experience with global and distributed teams.
• Experience building and scaling systems that support multiple products and regions.
• AML / financial crime experience is preferred but not required.

Required skills

• Distributed systems and cloud architecture
• Machine learning and/or large language models in production (preferred but not required)
• Leadership: mentoring engineers, communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

What we offer

• Starting salary of EUR 6,650 to 8,350 gross per month plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• A collaborative, cross-functional team working on complex problems at the intersection of engineering, data and risk.