Senior Software Engineer - Risk Governance & Data Assurance

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Risk Control & Governance team in London. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations that ensure every risk decision is consistent, auditable, and scalable.

You will work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams, delivering high-throughput data platforms, data contracts, and explainability tooling to support regulatory reporting and risk decisions at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems.
• Ability to design for scale and reliability.
• Strong backend and data engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build Data Trust with quality monitoring and lineage tracking.
• Deliver Continuous Assurance through automated monitoring of controls.
• Enable Auditability with end-to-end audit trails and explainability tooling.
• Integrate with Risk API to embed governance into the core platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data engineering

Systems thinking

Ownership autonomy

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Risk Control & Governance team in London. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations that ensure every risk decision is consistent, auditable, and scalable.

You will work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams, delivering high-throughput data platforms, data contracts, and explainability tooling to support regulatory reporting and risk decisions at scale.