Wise

Senior Software Engineer II - Risk & Control Governance

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9 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for traceability from risk decisions to source data.
  • Design and implement automated systems that continuously validate control effectiveness, including drift, false-positive/negative, and coverage-gap detection.
  • Create audit-trail infrastructure and explainability tooling for regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.
  • Integrate governance and assurance capabilities into the Risk API platform through shared data contracts and clean integration points.
  • Design robust, high-throughput solutions that scale across multiple risk domains.
  • Collaborate with Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders on data models, contracts, 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, and 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 Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Inclusive and diverse international team environment.
  • Annual compensation of GBP 111000 - GBP 145000.
  • Work arrangement and additional benefits are not specified in the posting.

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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