Senior Software Engineer, Risk & Data Governance

Neobankbeat; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; 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 that ensure risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored.

You will work across the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime to embed governance into the core platform. Your impact includes building data trust, delivering continuous assurance, enabling auditability, and ensuring clean integration

Qualifications

• High-throughput, data-intensive systems experience with backend engineering.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, pipelines, or lineage tracking.
• Ability to reason about distributed systems and design robust, simple solutions.
• Ownership and autonomy to drive delivery end-to-end.
• Collaborative across teams with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime.

Responsibilities

• Build Data Trust by implementing data quality monitoring and lineage tracking.
• Deliver Continuous Assurance with automated monitoring for drift and coverage gaps.
• Enable Auditability with audit trails and explainability tooling.
• Integrate with Risk API for governance within the core platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Data quality

Data pipelines

Lineage tracking

Systems thinking

Ownership

Autonomy

Collaboration

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 that ensure risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored.

You will work across the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime to embed governance into the core platform. Your impact includes building data trust, delivering continuous assurance, enabling auditability, and ensuring clean integration