Engineering Lead Growth

• Partner with Product and Design to define roadmap scope and success metrics; translate customer needs into an executable plan.
• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap prioritize projects and ship incrementally to production.
• Engage with the Product Manager into building a backlog that continuously contributes to the execution of the roadmap.
• Drive strong delivery practices: planning prioritisation execution and continuous improvement.
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for services and APIs with a focus on scalability reliability security and maintainability.
• Stay hands-on where it matters: guide design reviews de-risk complex initiatives and raise the bar on engineering quality.

• Serve as the accountable owner for the architecture and system quality across our services.
• Analyze and validate the technique design for the software functions from the team.
• Review code from team members and ensure the standards.
• Drive design and code quality: institute standards reviews and automated checks that raise the bar without slowing teams down.
• Guide the evolution of application and platform infrastructure to reduce operational overhead and improve developer productivity.
• Establish operational excellence for production systems (monitoring incident response postmortems reliability improvements) and ensure auditability/traceability is built in.
• Champion secure coding practices robust authentication/authorization and proactive vulnerability management.

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with a deep foundation in distributed systems high-availability architectures and designing for availability/consistency challenges.
• Proficiency in modern JVM ecosystems (Java 17+ Kotlin Spring / Spring Boot) including multi-threading high concurrency IO/NIO and network communication.
• Expert knowledge of design patterns microservices architecture and event-driven/streaming systems (e.g. Kafka).
• Hands-on experience with GCP/AWS Docker and Kubernetes combined with a strong grasp of observability tools like Splunk Grafana and Prometheus.
• Experience in developing large-scale system control interfaces and a track record of building API- and integration-heavy systems in production.
• You take initiative and skillfully navigate complex technical challenges to deliver impactful results.

• Experience building scalable growth features (referral systems dynamic funnels) with a focus on reducing "Time-to-Value."
• Background in A/B testing frameworks and using data analytics to optimize customer onboarding and conversion.
• Familiarity with building products using AI & LLMs (e.g. personalization or intelligent self-serve tools).
• Polyglot experience with other modern languages such as Scala Javascript Python or Golang.

What We Do

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 200000 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 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital 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.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast think globally and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious let's talk.

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