Staff Product Engineer Risk & Control Governance

Were looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team / Risk Assessment Group. Youll be instrumental in building the governance assurance and data foundations that ensure every risk decision at Wise is consistent explainable auditable and continuously monitored.

This role works at the intersection of the Risk API platform Product and Financial Crime (FinCrime) teams offering a unique opportunity to build the systems that give Wise confidence in every risk assessment it operates at scale.

You will be the driving force behind the platforms trustworthiness and integrity focusing on:

• Data Governance: Building and maintaining data ownership lineage and quality monitoring systems that ensure every risk decision is powered by trusted data.

• Control Assurance: Designing continuous monitoring and validation systems that verify controls perform as intended including trigger validation drift detection coverage analysis and control health scoring.

• Auditability & Explainability: Implementing end-to-end audit trails change history tracking and explainability tooling that enables one-click regulatory evidence generation.

• Scalable Solutions: Designing robust high-throughput solutions that handle large volumes of data and can be quickly understood and scaled across multiple distinct risk domains.

What will you be working on

You will join the team at a pivotal moment with your contributions being immediately visible and critical to the success of the entire Risk Assessment platforms governance layer.

The core challenge for the team and your immediate focus is to build the assurance and governance foundations that the platform currently lacks ensuring every control can answer: Was the right trigger used Was the right data available Was the right decision made Is the control still effective

Your immediate impact will be to:

• Build Data Trust: Implement data quality monitoring data contracts and lineage tracking that give the organisation full traceability from risk decisions back to source data.

• Deliver Continuous Assurance: Design and build automated monitoring systems that continuously validate control effectiveness detecting drift false positives/negatives and coverage gaps before they become incidents.

• Enable Auditability: Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling that dramatically reduces the effort required for regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.

• Integrate with Risk API: Work closely with the Risk API team to embed governance and assurance capabilities into the core platform ensuring clean integration points and shared data contracts.

Qualifications :

What do you need

• Strong Backend Engineering: Proven experience building high-throughput data-intensive systems in Java. Hands-on expertise with Kafka SQL and NoSQL databases and designing for scale and reliability.

• Data Engineering Aptitude: Experience with data quality frameworks pipeline orchestration or lineage tracking. You understand what it takes to make data trustworthy at scale.

• Systems Thinking: Ability to reason about complex distributed systems identify failure modes and design solutions that are both robust and operationally simple.

• Ownership & Autonomy: Comfortable operating with ambiguity defining your own work from high-level objectives and driving delivery end-to-end without close direction.

• Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work effectively across team boundaries particularly with the Risk API team Product and FinCrime stakeholders to align on contracts data models and integration patterns.

Additional Information :

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

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Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time