Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

Wise
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeGBP 111,000 - 145,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Ownership","Collaboration","Systems thinking"]

Build the governance layer for the Risk Assessment platform, ensuring risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored. Own data trust initiatives (quality monitoring, data contracts, lineage), design continuous control assurance (trigger validation, drift detection, coverage analysis), and implement audit trails and explainability tooling. Partner with the Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime teams to integrate governance capabilities into high-throughput systems.

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Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

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Job Summary

Build the governance layer for the Risk Assessment platform, ensuring risk decisions are consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored. Own data trust initiatives (quality monitoring, data contracts, lineage), design continuous control assurance (trigger validation, drift detection, coverage analysis), and implement audit trails and explainability tooling. Partner with the Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime teams to integrate governance capabilities into high-throughput systems.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build data trust capabilities including data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking from risk decisions to source data.
  • •Deliver continuous assurance by designing automated monitoring to validate control effectiveness and detect drift, false positives/negatives, and coverage gaps.
  • •Enable auditability through audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to support regulatory evidence generation.
  • •Integrate governance and assurance into the Risk API platform with clean integration points and shared data contracts.
  • •Design scalable, high-throughput solutions that can be understood and scaled across multiple risk domains.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 111,000 - 145,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Rsus

Key Requirements

  • •Proven backend engineering experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in Java.
  • •Hands-on experience with Kafka and SQL, plus NoSQL databases, designing for scale and reliability.
  • •Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking to make data trustworthy at scale.
  • •Strong systems thinking to design robust distributed-system solutions and understand failure modes.
  • •Ability to operate with autonomy and collaborate across Risk API, Product, and FinCrime stakeholders to align on contracts and integration patterns.
Experience:Financial servicesRisk managementFincrime
Skills:OwnershipCollaborationSystems thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaKafkaSQLNoSQLData qualityData lineageData contracts

Company Brief

Wise
Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that provides low-cost international money transfers, multi-currency accounts and payment infrastructure for individuals and businesses worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2011
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