Engineering Lead - Cards

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.

What you'll do:

While you are a technically strong engineer who is still passionate about writing code, your leadership skills, product thinking and business acumen are what really sets you apart.

You will be responsible for the overall quality and delivery of multiple engineering streamlines within the Cards team. You will be the one clearing road blockers, providing context and guidance to the teams, and will know when to escalate.

This role will work with key stakeholders across the globe, and will provide technical leadership to Engineers within Cards, to define the tech vision of the business domain.

Who you are:

• You are a leader – with 5+ years experience leading a high impact engineering projects.

• You are committed – you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do.

• You are team player– you enjoy working in a collaborative environment with smart and innovative people.

• You are naturally curious – you constantly asy why and suggest improved ways to do things.

• You are a passionate problem solver  – you love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years working in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering

• Strong computer science fundamentals. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using we are using Java or Kotlin.

• Exposure working on high volume distributed systems

• Hands on experience with event driven architectures

• GCP experience preferred, but AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront etc) with docker and Kubernetes is great too

• Previous experience in FinTech a plus.

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We organize regular team building events, encourage hybrid/flexible working, and we give our people the freedom to be creative. 

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.