Software Engineer - Risk Control & Governance

As a Software Engineer on Wise’s Risk & Control Governance team, you help build the governance, assurance, and data foundations that make risk decisions auditable, explainable, and continuously monitored. You work at the intersection of Risk API, Product, and FinCrime, shaping scalable, trustworthy data and controls across risk domains. You will implement data lineage, continuous assurance, and auditability tooling to enable regulatory evidence generation. This role offers visible impact on the governance layer of the Risk Assessment platform and its compliance posture.

• Build data quality monitoring, contracts, and lineage to ensure traceability from risk decisions to source data
• Design automated monitoring to validate control effectiveness, detect drift, and identify coverage gaps
• Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to simplify regulatory reporting
• Integrate governance capabilities with the Risk API and ensure clean data contracts
• Deliver scalable, high-throughput data-oriented solutions across multiple risk domains
• Collaborate with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime teams to align on data models and integration patterns

• Experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems
• Proficiency with Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases; experience designing for scale and reliability
• Experience with data quality frameworks, data pipelines, or lineage tracking
• Systems thinking for distributed systems and robust, simple operations
• Ownership and autonomy in ambiguous environments; end-to-end delivery
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams including Risk API, Product, and FinCrime

• Collaborative mindset
• Ownership and initiative
• Problem-solving under ambiguity
• Kafka
• SQL
• NoSQL databases