Senior Product Engineer - Risk Governance & Data Trust

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

Job summary

Wise is seeking an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are traceable, auditable, and scalable across the platform.

The role sits at the intersection of Risk API, Product, and FinCrime, focusing on data ownership, drift detection, explainability tooling, and end-to-end auditability to support regulatory evidence generation.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering: experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems; Java or similar.
• Data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking experience.
• Systems thinking for distributed architectures and failure modes.
• Ownership and autonomy in delivering end-to-end work.
• Collaborative across Risk API, Product and FinCrime teams on data contracts.

Responsibilities

• Build data trust with quality monitoring, contracts and lineage tracking.
• Deliver continuous assurance with automated monitoring for drift and coverage gaps.
• Enable auditability with end-to-end trails and explainability tooling.
• Integrate governance into Risk API with clean data contracts and interfaces.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Data quality frameworks

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Ownership & autonomy

Job description

Wise is seeking an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are traceable, auditable, and scalable across the platform.

The role sits at the intersection of Risk API, Product, and FinCrime, focusing on data ownership, drift detection, explainability tooling, and end-to-end auditability to support regulatory evidence generation.