Senior/Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

Requirements

• 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.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build Data Trust: Implement data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking that give the organization 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.

Perks and Benefits

• We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join the Risk & Control Governance team / Risk Assessment Group.
• You'll 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.