Wise

Senior/Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

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10 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Build data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for risk decisions.
  • Design automated assurance systems that validate control effectiveness and detect drift, false positives, false negatives, and coverage gaps.
  • Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling for regulatory evidence generation.
  • Integrate governance and assurance capabilities into the Risk API platform.
  • Design robust, high-throughput solutions that scale across multiple risk domains.
  • Collaborate with the Risk API team, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders on contracts, data models, and integration patterns.

Requirements

  • Proven backend engineering experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in any language.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases, including designing for scale and reliability.
  • Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking.
  • Ability to reason about complex distributed systems, identify failure modes, and design robust, operationally simple solutions.
  • Ability to work autonomously, define work from high-level objectives, and drive delivery end to end.
  • Ability to collaborate across team boundaries with Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders.

Tech Stack

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BackendProduct Engineering
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About Wise

10,000+ employees

Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.

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