Senior Software Engineer I - Risk Control & Governance

Requirements

  • Strong Backend Engineering experience with high-throughput, data-intensive systems in any language.
  • Hands-on expertise with Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, designing for scale and reliability.
  • Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking.
  • Systems Thinking: ability to reason about complex distributed systems and design robust, operationally simple solutions.
  • Ownership & Autonomy: comfortable working with ambiguity, defining work from high-level goals, and driving delivery end-to-end independently.
  • Collaborative Mindset: able to work effectively across teams, especially with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

  • Build data trust by implementing data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for full traceability from risk decisions to source data.
  • Design and deliver continuous assurance by building automated monitoring systems to validate control effectiveness and detect issues before incidents occur.
  • Enable auditability by creating audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to streamline regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.
  • Integrate governance and assurance capabilities with the Risk API platform ensuring clean integration points and shared data contracts.
  • Build and maintain data ownership, lineage, and quality monitoring systems.
  • Design continuous monitoring and validation systems for control assurance including trigger validation, drift detection, coverage analysis, and control health scoring.
  • Implement end-to-end audit trails, change history tracking, and explainability tooling.
  • Design scalable, high-throughput solutions handling large data volumes across multiple risk domains.
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