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 youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.
Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.
The issuing engineering team at Airwallex builds and operates core systems for card issuing transaction processing and settlement at global scale. The team owns mission-critical platforms that underpin Airwallexs issuing products with a strong focus on reliability scalability and compliance. Key areas of ownership include:
Cards: Customer-facing and internal systems for card lifecycle management controls and configuration.
Transactions: A global high-throughput transaction processing platform designed for low latency high availability and resiliency.
Settlement: Clearance settlement and dispute workflows that ensure financial accuracy and scheme compliance.
As a senior software engineer you are a strong individual contributor who takes ownership of complex components and delivers high-quality systems in collaboration with your team.
While you do not have direct reports your impact will come from technical execution sound design decisions and helping raise the quality and effectiveness of the team through example and collaboration.
This role is based in Singapore.
System design and implementation
Design build and operate backend services that support card issuing transaction processing and settlement.
Contribute to the design of scalable resilient systems in a distributed environment.
Engineering quality and delivery
Write high-quality well-tested code with a strong focus on maintainability and operational readiness.
Participate actively in code reviews design discussions and incident retrospectives.
API and platform development
Design and implement RESTful APIs used by internal teams and external customers.
Ensure APIs are reliable well-documented and easy to integrate with.
Collaboration and technical leadership
Work closely with engineers product managers and stakeholders across regions to deliver outcomes.
Mentor peer engineers through code reviews pairing and technical guidance.
Operational excellence
Contribute to system reliability through monitoring alerting and on-call participation.
Identify and address performance scalability and resiliency issues proactively.
Were looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.
Bachelor degree or above in computer science or software engineering related majors.
5 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong backend development experience using Java Kotlin Go or Python.
Solid computer science fundamentals and understanding of object-oriented design.
Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures for example Kafka.
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS including Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk Grafana Prometheus or similar.
Experience in fintech payments or other high-reliability domains.
Experience with JVM-based frameworks such as Spring or Spring Boot.
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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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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