Staff Backend Engineer, Data Insights Platform

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

We're building a brand new data platform. This platform will provide robust capabilities for financial data search, reporting, and streaming, transforming our current infrastructure into a scalable, high-performance platform to support the implementation of custom reporting products and pave the way for AI-powered transaction insights and analysis. 

What you’ll do

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Engineer to lead the development of our Next Generation Financial Data and Insights Platform.

This role is based in Melbourne.

Responsibilities:

You'll help us build a scalable financial data storage and retrieval platform, and develop low-latency, high-reliability APIs for financial data search and retrieval.

This team is implementing a robust data streaming infrastructure, using Kafka, Spark and related technologies, and you'll be designing and optimising OLAP data storage-based solutions for comprehensive financial reporting.

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:

• Proven experience in building large-scale, high-performance data-intensive systems.

• Expertise in SQL, Elasticsearch, BigQuery or similar technologies.

• Strong knowledge of data streaming technologies.

• Experience with extensible schema design and schema evolution management.

• Ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience in working with financial data systems is preferred but not strictly required.

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.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.