Senior Software Engineer I – Risk Control & Governance

Overview

In this role you will strengthen Wise’s risk assessment platform by building governance, assurance, and data foundations. You will work at the intersection of Risk API, Product, and FinCrime teams to ensure decisions are trusted, auditable, and scalable. You drive data quality, continuous assurance, and explainability to support regulatory evidence generation. You will shape the platform’s governance layer, enabling reliable risk decisions across domains. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence risk governance at scale in a fast-growing fintech.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data governance components including ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring
• Design continuous monitoring to validate control effectiveness and detect drift or gaps
• Develop audit trails and explainability tooling for easy regulatory reporting
• Create scalable, high-throughput data solutions that serve multiple risk domains
• Embed governance and assurance capabilities into the Risk API platform with clear data contracts
• Drive data trust from source data to risk decisions
• Enable end-to-end traceability and explainability of risk decisions
• Collaborate with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime teams to align contracts and data models

Key requirements

• Strong backend engineering with experience in high-throughput, data-intensive systems
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, and lineage tracking
• Systems thinking for complex distributed systems and reliability
• Ownership and autonomy to drive delivery end-to-end in ambiguity
• Collaborative mindset for cross-team alignment with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime

• collaborative
• ownership
• adaptability
• Kafka
• SQL
• NoSQL databases

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