Senior Backend Engineer - Spend Fraud & Disputes

We need a Senior Backend Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

Team you will be working with: Spend Fraud & Disputes

The Spend Fraud & Disputes team is responsible for the powerful engine assessing each Wise Card transaction against suspicious behaviour, helping keep our customer’s money safe. We also build the tooling necessary to resolve disputes when a transaction goes wrong - from the customer experience to the integration with Visa and MasterCard for submitting chargebacks. 

What does success look like?

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
• You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
• You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritize work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

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 Instagram.