Senior Software Engineer - Risk & Governance

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will build governance, assurance, and data foundations ensuring risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and monitored at scale.

This role sits at the crossroads of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams, delivering scalable systems that foster trust and enable regulatory evidence generation across the platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-throughput data-intensive systems.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, pipelines, or lineage tracking.
• Ability to reason about distributed systems and design robust, operable solutions.
• Proven ownership and ability to drive delivery with limited direction.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime teams.

Responsibilities

• Build Data Trust: implement data quality monitoring, contracts, and lineage tracking for traceability from risk decisions to source data.
• Deliver Continuous Assurance: design automated monitoring to detect drift, false positives/negatives, and coverage gaps.
• Enable Auditability: create audit trails and explainability tooling for regulatory reporting and evidence generation.
• Integrate with Risk API: work with the Risk API team to embed governance across the core platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Data governance

Ownership

Tools

Java

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will build governance, assurance, and data foundations ensuring risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and monitored at scale.

This role sits at the crossroads of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams, delivering scalable systems that foster trust and enable regulatory evidence generation across the platform.