Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform (Relocate to Amsterdam)

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 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.

Attributes We Value

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.

About the team

The Payments team spans China the Netherlands and Singapore embracing a rich tapestry of cultures and perspectives.
Our mission is to simplify the complexities of payments for businesses by designing solutions that seamlessly integrate into their workflows enhancing efficiency and driving customer conversion rates. Within our diverse and dynamic team youll find yourself at the intersection of innovation and practicality where every contribution is essential in making payment processes effortless.
Joining us means becoming part of a global community of engineers leading the charge in reshaping the payments landscape while actively contributing to the operational success of businesses worldwide.

What youll do

In this role you will play a key part in diverse initiatives across our international payments platform. We highly value your expertise in constructing designing and engineering payment systems whether its a gateway acquiring issuing or equivalent. If youre not already familiar youll gain comprehensive knowledge of Visa and Mastercard payment platforms. Collaboration with the payments product team and occasional interaction with partners engineering teams are encouraged. As a vital member of our core acquiring payment team youll contribute to building the next-generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure with a constant focus on Merchant needs.

This role is based in Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new capabilities aligned with our product roadmap

• Develop various REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture connecting with our React frontend

• Conduct architectural reviews for current and upcoming solutions

• Address tech debt and enhance operational effectiveness

Who you are

Were looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Over 5 years of expertise in contemporary engineering methodologies emphasizing continuous integration and quality engineering.

• Possesses robust computer science fundamentals with a recent focus on Java or Kotlin Spring / Spring Boot technologies.

• Specialized in designing and constructing REST APIs adept in handling high-volume distributed systems Kafka event streams and distributed data storage systems such as Cassandra Hazelcast Oracle Coherence or similar technologies.

• Demonstrated proficiency in cloud platforms like GCP or AWS (EC2 RDS ELB CloudFront) along with exposure to containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Skilled in Javascript / Typescript and well-versed in operational tooling including but not limited to New Relic StatsD Elk Datadog and Prometheus.

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive experience in the development of payment gateways acquiring platforms or issuing platforms

• Expertise in integrating Local Payment Methods (i.e. iDeal Klarna Trustly) or major Cards (i.e. Visa Mastercard)
  

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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.

Required Experience:

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