Senior Software Engineer II - Risk Control & Governance

Requirements

  • Strong Backend Engineering: Experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems; expertise with Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases; designing for scale and reliability.
  • Data Engineering Aptitude: Knowledge of data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, and lineage tracking to ensure trustworthy data at scale.
  • Systems Thinking: Ability to understand complex distributed systems, identify failure modes, and design robust, operationally simple solutions.
  • Ownership & Autonomy: Comfortable working with ambiguity, defining work from high-level objectives, and delivering results independently.
  • Collaborative Mindset: Skilled at working across teams, particularly with Risk API, Product, and FinCrime stakeholders, aligning on contracts, data models, and integration patterns.

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.
  • Deliver Continuous Assurance through automated monitoring systems that validate control effectiveness and detect drift, false positives/negatives, and coverage gaps.
  • Enable Auditability by creating audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to simplify regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation.
  • Integrate with the Risk API team to embed governance and assurance capabilities into the core platform with clean integration points and shared data contracts.
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