Engineering Lead - AUP (Acceptable Use Policy)

Requirements:

• Engineering Leadership: You have proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing software engineers in an agile environment (either as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager).
• Strong Technical Roots: You have a solid engineering background with modern languages and an understanding of frontend frameworks (like React and TypeScript).
• Distributed Systems at Scale: You have designed, deployed, and maintained scalable, concurrent microservices in a cloud environment. You understand the tradeoffs of high-throughput message processing and asynchronous workflows.
• Product & Risk Mindset: You don't build tech for the sake of tech. You care about the business impact, understand operational bottlenecks, and can translate complex policy mandates into simple, incremental engineering milestones.
• Excellent Communication: You can easily align engineers, data scientists, and non-technical business partners (like compliance and operations leads) toward a shared technical vision.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience working in FinTech, Financial Crime (AML, Sanctions, Fraud, or Policy enforcement).
• Experience partnering with Data Scientists to productionalize and scale Machine Learning models.
• Familiarity with Cloud Infrastructure and modern DevOps tooling (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions).
• Experience building or optimizing high-volume case-management platforms or operational back-office tools.
• You are already a customer of Wise!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Risk Detection: Close coverage gaps and scale our detection systems by integrating advanced Machine Learning models and building robust controls to spot AUP violations.
• Supercharge Operations: Architect automated workflows and intuitive internal tooling to reduce the cost per case and median handling times for our operations analysts.
• Own the Architecture: Keep our services highly available, resilient, and secure. You’ll ensure we have the right monitoring, observability, and decoupled architectures to scale alongside Wise's massive global volume.

Perks and Benefits:

• Continuous support for learning new skills
• Emphasis on potential, execution, and enthusiasm over existing expertise
• High autonomy and collaboration within a cross-functional squad