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WiseSenior Software Engineer I - Risk Control & Governance
Wise is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Risk Control & Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This full-time, on-site…
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Wise is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Risk Control & Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This full-time, on-site role focuses on creating the governance, assurance, and data foundations that keep every risk assessment consistent, auditable, and continuously monitored. The engineer will collaborate closely with Product, Financial Crime, and Risk API teams to build robust systems ensuring risk decisions operate reliably at scale.…
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Wise is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Risk Control & Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This full-time, on-site role focuses on creating the governance, assurance, and data foundations that keep every risk assessment consistent, auditable, and continuously monitored. The engineer will collaborate closely with Product, Financial Crime, and Risk API teams to build robust systems ensuring risk decisions operate reliably at scale.
This position suits a backend specialist with strong systems thinking and data engineering aptitude who can operate autonomously amidst ambiguity. Immediate responsibilities include establishing data trust through lineage tracking and quality monitoring, delivering automated continuous assurance to detect drift and coverage gaps, and creating audit trail infrastructure for regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring systems
- Design continuous monitoring and validation systems to verify control performance
- Implement end-to-end audit trails, change history tracking, and explainability tooling
- Design high-throughput solutions that scale across multiple risk domains
- Implement data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for full traceability
- Build automated monitoring systems to detect drift, false positives or negatives, and coverage gaps
- Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to reduce regulatory reporting effort
- Integrate governance and assurance capabilities directly with the Risk API team
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in any language
- Hands-on expertise with Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking
- Ability to reason about complex distributed systems and design robust solutions
- Ability to operate with autonomy and define work from high-level objectives
- Collaborative mindset to work across team boundaries with Product, FinCrime, and Risk API stakeholders
Core Skills
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This position is located in London and is on-site.
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The position is full-time.
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You will join the Risk Control & Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group.
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