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Design, build, test, and operate scalable Java backend services for banking and payment products. Own solutions from customer problem through production, make technical decisions, collaborate across system boundaries, improve reliability and observability, and contribute to code reviews, mentoring, and partner integrations. Work with microservices, Kafka-based event-driven architecture, PostgreSQL, and domain-driven design while supporting funding, settlement, and currency conversion capabilities.

Lead product analytics for financial crime and AML prevention. The role develops metrics, dashboards, risk and customer-experience frameworks, and analytical solutions to detect and mitigate financial crime. It partners with product managers, designers, data scientists, engineers, and operations teams to identify opportunities, recommend features, rules, and models, and turn complex data into actionable decisions.

Lead analytics for security, risk, and compliance controls. Build and optimize Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, and REST API data pipelines; develop continuous control monitoring metrics, dashboards, and efficiency frameworks; investigate data quality and SLA issues; partner with security, compliance, product, engineering, and risk teams; and manage one or two analysts.

Design and build low-latency, real-time liquidity observability systems and streaming data pipelines for global financial operations. Architect Kafka and Flink pipelines, develop real-time aggregation and event-driven architectures, model streaming and analytical data, and ensure reliability through idempotency, exactly-once processing, failure recovery, and schema evolution. Collaborate with product, data science, quantitative analysis, and treasury teams to support liquidity positioning, forecasting, and operational visibility.

Leads the development and deployment of machine learning models for Wise’s Receive product, using customer and transaction data to improve risk management, prioritization, personalization, and customer outcomes. Designs experiments, builds production-grade data pipelines and modelling tools, analyzes trends and anomalies, and collaborates with engineering, product, analytics, operations, and risk teams. The role also supports scalable data science capabilities and fraud prevention across global markets.

Own global executive searches for engineering, product, data, and design leadership roles. Advise senior stakeholders on hiring, succession, organization design, leveling, and location strategy. Build leadership pipelines, assess and close executive candidates, improve recruitment processes, analyze market intelligence, and develop AI-driven talent solutions. Mentor recruiting colleagues and promote inclusive hiring practices.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Wise’s FX engineering stack across market data and risk teams. Build semi-automated hedge execution, real-time Flink streaming pipelines, Kafka infrastructure, quant model production systems, and high-throughput rate services. Lead reliability, incident response, technical roadmaps, system design, and engineering mentorship while collaborating with traders, quants, and treasury stakeholders.

Design and scale distributed, event-driven systems for AML, customer due diligence, and financial crime prevention across European and UK markets. Own risk architecture end to end, make critical technical decisions, mentor engineers, partner with Product, Compliance, and Data Science, and deliver real-time, auditable risk decisions using high-throughput systems.

Own commercial growth for Wise Platform across Nordic financial institutions. Develop market strategy, identify and engage banks and fintechs, manage enterprise sales cycles, negotiate high-value partnerships, and close contracts. Translate Nordic market needs into product and regional expansion insights while supporting technical product integrations with clients.

Manage safeguarding implementations for new products and legal entities across Wise’s global finance and treasury operations. Lead reviews, approvals, integrations, controls setup, documentation, testing, and delivery. Coordinate product, engineering, analytics, compliance, finance, treasury operations, and regional teams. Investigate incidents, drive resolution, maintain safeguarding calculations and product-flow documentation, and ensure controls support regulatory and customer-fund protection requirements.