Wise

Senior Software Engineer I - Risk Control & Governance

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10 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for risk decisions.
  • Design automated control-assurance systems that detect drift, false positives, false negatives, and coverage gaps.
  • Create audit-trail infrastructure and explainability tooling for regulatory reporting and compliance evidence.
  • Design scalable, high-throughput solutions for governance across multiple risk domains.
  • Integrate governance and assurance capabilities with the Risk API through shared data contracts and clean integration points.
  • Collaborate with Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders to define data models and integration patterns.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building high-throughput, data-intensive backend systems in any programming 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 operate autonomously, define work from high-level objectives, and drive delivery end-to-end.
  • Ability to collaborate across team boundaries with technical and business stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Inclusive and diverse international team environment.
  • Annual compensation of GBP 87500 - GBP 111000.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData 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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