Senior Software Engineer I - Risk Control & Governance

In this Senior Product Engineer role, you’ll strengthen Wise’s Risk Assessment platform by building governance, assurance, and data foundations. You will help ensure risk decisions are data-driven, auditable, and scalable across domains, partnering with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime teams. You’ll implement data trust, continuous assurance, and auditability to enable regulatory evidence generation. This position offers visibility into critical governance work that underpins Wise’s risk platform at scale.

• Build data governance foundations: data ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring for risk decisions
• Develop continuous assurance systems: automated monitoring for control effectiveness and coverage
• Create auditability tooling: end-to-end audit trails and explainability for regulatory reporting
• Design scalable, high-throughput solutions that span multiple risk domains
• Integrate governance capabilities with the Risk API and ensure shared data contracts
• Deliver data contracts and lineage tracking to enable traceability from risk decisions to source data
• Drive risk platform governance improvements with measurable impact on trust and integrity

• Backend engineering experience with high-throughput, data-intensive systems
• Experience with Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases; design for scale and reliability
• Data quality frameworks, data pipelines, or lineage tracking
• Systems thinking for distributed architectures and failure mode analysis
• Ownership and autonomy to define work from objectives and deliver end-to-end
• Collaborative mindset across Risk API, Product, and FinCrime stakeholders

• ownership and autonomy
• collaborative mindset
• systems thinking
• Kafka
• SQL
• NoSQL databases