Requirements

• Strategic Autonomy and Ownership: Proven ability to define and fully own the architectural roadmap and delivery pipeline for a mission-critical platform. Must operate with a high degree of independence, translating ambiguous goals into concrete engineering plans.
• Team and Process Scaling Acumen: Immediate capability to drive the full-cycle hiring process and define the core operating model, engineering standards, and performance culture necessary to scale a newly formed team rapidly (5+ engineers).
• Cross-Functional Decision Authority: The skill to step in as the primary technical decision-maker, swiftly resolving architectural conflicts and achieving alignment between demanding Product, FinCrime, and other engineering stakeholders.
• Leveraging Platform Expertise: A clear demonstration of how their prior experience in building and operating scalable Product or Service Platforms will be immediately applied to solve complex, company-wide integration and governance challenges in the risk domain.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architecting the Risk Contract: Leading the design and implementation of the core Risk API. This involves defining robust API contracts and data schemas that serve as the critical interface between Product features and our FinCrime defense systems.
• Defining the Risk Assessment Ledger: Formalizing technical frameworks for the immutable logging of all platform-wide risk evaluations. You will spearhead the delivery of high-fidelity data streams for diverse stakeholders, ensuring absolute auditability and transparency - from granular system debugging to the generation of rigorous external regulatory reports.
• Scaling the Team and Culture: Actively managing and mentoring the current engineering team (IC2-IC4), while rapidly driving the recruitment strategy to grow the team. This includes defining clear roles, efficient processes, and a high-performance engineering culture.
• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Serving as the key technical partner to Product, FinCrime, and other Engineering Leads. You will champion the architectural vision for the platform, ensuring technical decisions align with both business agility and security requirements.
• Platform Resilience: Ensuring the platform is built for high availability, low latency, and massive scale, managing the operational health (SLAs/SLOs) of a critical, real-time risk service.

Perks and Benefits

• We’re people without borders - without judgment or prejudice, too.
• Qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience and can articulate your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.
• Diverse teams build better products, so we'd especially love to hear from you if you're from an under-represented demographic.
• 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.