Staff Software Engineer

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

Airwallex is establishing a state-of-the-art lending platform and building a suite of related credit products which include customer facing credit cards. The lending team is working on the leading edge of our lending product suite to launch and scale up our embedded finance & credit product capabilities into new markets. The lending product and engineering team is based in Singapore and has full global ownership. This role requires close collaboration within the local team and across teams globally to lead the evolution and innovation of our exciting new credit suite.

Join Airwallex and become an integral part of a team that is redefining the boundaries of financial innovation. Airwallex offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where you can cultivate your knowledge, foster personal growth, and realize your full potential.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the design, architect, implementation & delivery across our lending product suite, initially focused on launching embedded credit products to our enterprise customers. You will collaborate with a talented team of engineers to conduct design and architectural reviews, ensuring the highest quality and scalability of our solutions.

Your contributions will directly impact the success of our products and make a lasting mark on the industry. Seize this opportunity to join our dynamic team and become a part of our journey to create extraordinary technology that empowers users worldwide!

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• You are a leader – striving for technical excellence through your coding and system design.
• You are committed – you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do.
• You have a product mindset – your product thinking is what sets you apart.
• You know API’s – from designing to building REST APIs.
• You are a team player – fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across multiple regions.
• You are a passionate problem solver – weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.
• 2+ years of staff experience mentoring a community of engineers and leading the definition and execution of engineering strategy.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, solid understanding of OOP concepts.
• Experience in domain driven design and event driven architectures.
• Extensive experience with JVM based programming Java or Kotlin, familiar with Spring/Spring Boot.
• Deep working experience with high throughput / low latency / high availability distributed systems.
• Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience within the financial domain.
• Experience with SaaS product offering as a platform.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.