Frontend Engineer II, Risk

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 Client Risk Team at Airwallex is responsible for proactively detecting and managing client-level financial crime and credit risk across all Airwallex products. Our vision is to deliver a unified and data-driven view of each client by consolidating internal and external insights. We are committed to leveraging advanced machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to enhance decision intelligence automate operational workflows and support responsible business growth globally.

What youll do

As a Frontend Engineer in Client Risk you will build and evolve the web applications used by Risk Operations Compliance and internal stakeholders to investigate cases make decisions and manage client risk at scale. Youll design intuitive efficient and trustworthy user experiences for complex risk workflows and collaborate closely with backend engineers data scientists product managers and Ops teams.

While this role is primarily frontend-focused we strongly prefer candidates who have full-stack experience or are willing to take on light backend/BFF tasks when neededoften with the help of modern coding assistantsso you can independently deliver end-to-end features when the backend scope is well-defined.

We value engineers who can own a feature end-to-end. If a feature requires a small well-defined backend/BFF change we prefer someone who is comfortable exploring and delivering it independently (with appropriate reviews and guardrails) including using coding assistants responsibly.

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain high-quality scalable frontend applications for Client Risk workflows (case management monitoring investigations reporting and operational tooling).

• Partner with Product and Ops to translate ambiguous operational problems into clear UX flows that are efficient auditable and compliant.

• Build reusable frontend foundations (component libraries shared modules patterns for state management access control and form-heavy workflows) that enable consistent delivery across systems.

• Integrate with backend services via REST and/or GraphQL ensuring correct data contracts performance and reliability for Ops-critical experiences.

• Drive frontend architecture and engineering excellence: performance optimization observability testing strategy accessibility and maintainable code practices.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend engineers data and compliance partners to ship solutions that deliver measurable operational and risk outcomes.

• (Preferred / as needed) Contribute to BFF or light backend tasks (e.g. BFF endpoints simple API integrations minor schema changes) to unblock end-to-end delivery where appropriatealways with strong engineering rigor and review.

Who you are

Minimum qualifications

• 2 years of professional frontend engineering experience including ownership of complex web applications.

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6) with deep understanding of HTML5/CSS3.

• Strong experience with React and its ecosystem (state management routing component patterns performance); experience with Vue/Angular is a plus.

• Experience designing and delivering frontend architecture for large-scale web systems (modularization build tooling shared components maintainability).

• Familiarity with common frontend styling and UI approaches (e.g. Emotion styled-components SCSS) and UI libraries/frameworks (e.g. Material UI Ant Design Bootstrap).

• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS browser fundamentals and API integration patterns; experience building reliable user-friendly flows on top of RESTful APIs.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work effectively with Product Ops backend engineers and other stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

• A strong quality mindset: you care about correctness user impact maintainability and operational safety.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building BFF services using (or willingness to pick this up) and understanding how to design pragmatic API aggregation layers for frontend needs.

• Full-stack experience or strong willingness to take on well-scoped backend tasks (e.g. simple services/endpoints data modeling changes) when it improves delivery speed and ownership.

• Experience with GraphQL and modern frontend platform patterns (module federation micro-frontends monorepos etc.).

• Experience with performance and reliability in Ops-critical environments: logging monitoring error tracking and incident-driven improvements.

• Familiarity with data tracking and analytics tools (e.g. GA GTM) and using data to improve product UX and operational outcomes.

• Experience with engineering best practices and tooling: CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Nginx testing methodologies (BDD/TDD) and modern build tooling (Webpack/Rollup/Polyfills).

• Domain experience in fintech risk compliance or financial crime and/or experience building internal tools for operational teams.

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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.

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