Wise

Senior Software Engineer I - Risk Control & Governance

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build data ownership, lineage, quality monitoring, data contracts, and traceability systems for risk decisions.
  • Design and implement continuous monitoring for control effectiveness, including trigger validation, drift detection, false positive/negative detection, coverage analysis, and control health scoring.
  • Create audit trail infrastructure, change-history tracking, and explainability tooling for regulatory evidence generation.
  • Design scalable, high-throughput solutions that support multiple risk domains.
  • Integrate governance and assurance capabilities into the Risk API platform and collaborate on shared data contracts, data models, and integration patterns.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building high-throughput, data-intensive backend systems in any programming language.
  • Hands-on expertise 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 from high-level objectives and drive delivery end to end.
  • Ability to collaborate across the Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime teams.

Benefits

  • Inclusive, diverse, equitable, and international team environment.
  • Yearly compensation of GBP 87500 - GBP 111000.

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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