Software Engineer - Risk Control & Governance Platform

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are consistent, auditable, and monitored at scale.

You will work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, FinCrime, and Product teams to create trusted data, robust controls, and explainability tooling that supports regulatory evidence generation and scalable risk assessments across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with high-throughput data systems.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, pipelines, or lineage tracking.
• Ability to reason about distributed systems and design robust, simple solutions.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and delivering end-to-end.
• Collaborative across Risk API, Product, and FinCrime stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build Data Trust: implement data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking that give the organisation 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

Data engineering aptitude

Systems thinking

Ownership & autonomy

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Wise is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team. You will help build governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure risk decisions are consistent, auditable, and monitored at scale.

You will work at the intersection of the Risk API platform, FinCrime, and Product teams to create trusted data, robust controls, and explainability tooling that supports regulatory evidence generation and scalable risk assessments across the organisation.