Software Engineer - Business Funds Risk
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The team you’ll be working with: Business Funds Risk
We’re the team that keeps money on our platform clean, compliant, and easy to move. We build global, scalable controls that spot and stop unclear funds (money with an uncertain source) while keeping the experience fast and low‑friction for good customers. We own the full journey of those controls end‑to‑end — real‑time checks, smart decisions, data, and the customer flows that explain what’s needed and why. Our work protects customers, satisfies regulators, and helps the business grow with confidence.
Our technology stack includes Java, Spring, Kafka messaging and relational databases, but also in-house risk assessment platform layers we use to build all this in standardized way.
What does it take
A strong product mindset, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions
Sense of ownership and great communication skills to drive projects across teams
You have solid Java, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You enjoy writing testable code
You are proactive, wanting to learn from others and share your own learnings with others
Experience working with relational databases and query optimisation
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems
Hands on knowledge of system integration patterns
It’s a plus if you have experience in compliance and/or fincrime risk mitigation related domains
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 our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
You’ll identify technical challenges and opportunities and help us build a world class money transfer product
You’ll write code and design systems to make Global payment faster, cheaper, and more reliable for our customers
What you get back
The empowerment to solve problems your way
The freedom to have real impact
Loads of development opportunities
Deep knowledge about the world’s financial system
A fun work environment with social activities and events
The opportunity to work with super smart people in a truly diverse team
Interested? Find out more
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Our values
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.
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