Senior Risk Platform Engineer – Data Integrity & Scale

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 145,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an experienced backend leader to drive the Risk Assessment Platform in London. You will own core components, mentor engineers, and align product and compliance teams to deliver scalable risk workflows.

The role requires deep Java and microservice expertise, plus experience with data streaming and data lineage challenges at scale. This is a high-impact, hybrid position with RSU and a market salary.

Qualifications

• Deep backend expertise with production Java and microservice architectures.
• Strong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous communication protocols.
• Experience owning and designing core infrastructure and shared libraries.
• Ability to define a clear technical strategy and mentor others.
• Exceptional communication to align diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solutions for major challenges on the Risk Assessment Platform.
• Solve complex data integrity problems including data lineage and validity.
• Define technical contracts between Product and Financial Crime teams.
• Build scalable end-to-end risk assessment workflows.
• Drive improvements in speed, latency, and cost metrics.
• Own fundamental components and libraries and collaborate across teams.
• Define the long-term technical strategy for the domain.
• Work with product, compliance, and financial crime stakeholders to enable safe risk assessments.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Synchronous/Asynchronous protocols

Mentoring/leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Data streaming

Data lineage

Fintech/regtech background

Tools

Data streaming frameworks

Job description

Wise is seeking an experienced backend leader to drive the Risk Assessment Platform in London. You will own core components, mentor engineers, and align product and compliance teams to deliver scalable risk workflows.

The role requires deep Java and microservice expertise, plus experience with data streaming and data lineage challenges at scale. This is a high-impact, hybrid position with RSU and a market salary.