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$
- 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.
As an Engineering Lead in the Issuing Processor team, you will be responsible for leading a group of talented engineers to develop the critical card payment processing capabilities that empower the hypergrowth of Airwallex issuing business. The Lead will be excited to expand the impact beyond software and can thrive in a startup environment with ambiguity and rapid changes.
The team
The issuing processor manages integration with card networks and enables millions of card payments with industry leading availability to support 24x7 global transactions. These systems span several products including B2B wallets, payment acceptance, credit card issuing, treasury management, FX and this list continues to expand. Through our platform team you will be responsible for supporting key systems to both our front end web/mobile application team and support the integration of our platform solution, direct to customer, via an API.
You will partner with other key roles in the cross-functional team to develop the strategy and roadmap, prioritize work based on impact and drive the implementation with best-in-class quality and performance SLA.
In Airwallex we deliver business outcomes not just product features, you will also be given the opportunity to work with other Airwallex teams such as operations, support, finance and risk for operational excellence and delightful user experience.
Your work
Lead a team of high performing engineers and assist in new hiring. Motivate and mentor team members to grow in their roles.
Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritize projects and ship incrementally to production.
Build high available low latency distributed systems with a hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
Support the engineering team on architecture evolution, quality improvement and engineering risk mitigation.
Manage processes to help the team do its best work.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and delightful user experience.
Who you are
B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
Managed teams that have shipped and operated large scale, highly available distributed systems
Experience with backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot
Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS with docker and Kubernetes
A clear focus on measurable customer outcomes
Strong communication and collaboration skills, work well in a cross-functional environment
Experience with payment processor, card scheme network or PCI compliance
Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure
At Airwallex youll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why youll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organize regular team building events 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 dont 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.
