Engineering Lead - AML
Core
Lead an engineering team building scalable systems and controls to detect money laundering and terrorist financing risks across Wise's global payment products.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead (Financial Crime/AML)
Builds
Risk detection systems, alert creation tools, and scalable AML controls
Domain
Fintech / Financial Crime / Payments
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, hands-on technical leadership, system scalability, data analysis, product ownership, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Machine learning, large language models, payments domain, financial crime expertise
Technologies
Cloud architecture, distributed systems, data platforms
Responsibilities
Own the technical roadmap for AML detection systems, design scalable detection tooling, mentor engineers, partner with data scientists and AML experts to define controls, balance detection effectiveness with false positive reduction
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
