Wise

Senior/Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

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13 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • Proven backend engineering experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in Java.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka, SQL, 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

  • Annual compensation of GBP 111000 - GBP 145000.
  • International, diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

Categories

BackendData EngineeringProduct 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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