Platform Engineer – Risk, Data Governance & Compliance

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are consistent, auditable, and monitored at scale.

You’ll work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams to create trust and integrity across Wise’s risk assessments. Your remit includes data ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring; continuous validation of controls; end-to-end

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with high-throughput, data-intensive systems.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, data contracts, or lineage tracking.
• Ability to reason about complex distributed systems and design robust, scalable solutions.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving delivery end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Build data trust through quality monitoring, contracts, and lineage.
• Design continuous assurance systems to detect drift and coverage gaps.
• Create audit trails and explainability tooling for regulatory evidence generation.
• Collaborate with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime to embed governance into the platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data quality

Systems thinking

Ownership & autonomy

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Wise is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are consistent, auditable, and monitored at scale.

You’ll work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams to create trust and integrity across Wise’s risk assessments. Your remit includes data ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring; continuous validation of controls; end-to-end