Senior/Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You’ll help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure every risk decision is consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored.

You’ll work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams to create scalable, data-driven controls, with a focus on data trust, continuous assurance, and auditability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, and scaling for reliability.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking.
• Ability to reason about complex distributed systems and design robust, simple solutions.
• Strong ownership and autonomy to drive delivery end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Build Data Trust: Implement data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking that give the organization full traceability from risk decisions back to source data.
• Deliver Continuous Assurance: Design and build automated monitoring systems that continuously validate control effectiveness — detecting drift, false positives/negatives, and coverage gaps before they become incidents.
• Enable Auditability: Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling that dramatically reduces the effort required for regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.
• Integrate with Risk API: Work closely with the Risk API team to embed governance and assurance capabilities into the core platform, ensuring clean integration points and shared data contracts.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Data quality

Data lineage

Distributed systems

Ownership

Tools

Java

Job description

Wise is seeking an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You’ll help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure every risk decision is consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored.

You’ll work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, Product, and FinCrime teams to create scalable, data-driven controls, with a focus on data trust, continuous assurance, and auditability.