Senior Software Engineer, Search 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.

What you’ll do

As a vital member of the Tech Platform Team, you will be part of a specialized force that meticulously bridges the gap between business exigencies and architectural finesse. You will engage in:

• An advanced application infrastructure meticulously crafted to alleviate common challenges across the entire organization, significantly lowering maintenance costs for developers and streamlining innovation;

• Masterfully addressing intricate, organization-wide challenges through the strategic deployment of cutting-edge technologies such as reactive programming, temporal, vector databases, distributed systems, and advanced gateway solutions;

• Comprehensive, organization-wide evaluations of strategic solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Managers to analyze the product requirements and then produce the technique solutions & execution plan to deliver the software products;

• Hands-on design, implementation and deliver software functions;

• Analyze and validate the technique design for the software functions from the team;

• Review code from team members and ensure the standards;

• Engage with the Product Manager in building a backlog that continuously contributes to the execution of the roadmap;

• Assure the collaboration between your team and other teams including local/global engineering teams, infrastructure teams, and product manager teams.

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:

• More than 5 years of back-end development experience; Have experience in developing large-scale system.

• Proficient in coding and scripting languages (Java(Kotlin) /C++ /Python, etc.) with strong software design and system design abilities.

• In depth knowledge in one of these: OpenResty/PostgreSQL/Search Engine.

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.