Senior/Staff Product Engineer - Risk & Control Governance

What you'll be doing

  • Build the assurance and governance foundations for the Risk Assessment platform ensuring control effectiveness and decision accuracy.
  • Implement data quality monitoring, data contracts, and lineage tracking for full traceability from risk decisions back to source data.
  • Design and build automated monitoring systems to validate control effectiveness, detecting drift, false positives/negatives, and coverage gaps.
  • Create audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to ease regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.
  • Collaborate with the Risk API team to integrate governance and assurance capabilities into the core platform with clean integration points and shared data contracts.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in backend engineering building high-throughput, data-intensive systems using technologies like Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking to ensure trustworthy data at scale.
  • Strong systems thinking skills to reason about complex distributed systems, identify failure modes, and design robust yet operationally simple solutions.
  • Ability to work autonomously, define own work from high-level objectives, and drive delivery end-to-end.
  • Collaborative mindset to work effectively across team boundaries including Risk API, Product, and Financial Crime stakeholders.

Perks and benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of Risk API platform, Product, and Financial Crime teams on impactful governance and assurance systems.
  • Role offers immediate visibility and critical impact on the success of the Risk Assessment platform's governance layer.
  • Chance to build scalable, high-throughput solutions ensuring trustworthiness and integrity of risk decisions.
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