Engineering Manager, Growth
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Job Summary
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.
The Opportunity
Our Growth Team sits at the heart of Airwallexs mission focusing on user acquisition and strategic market expansion. We leverage data and cutting-edge technologies to craft seamless intuitive experiences that help millions of users discover engage with and benefit from our products.
From new-user funnels to onboarding optimizations our Growth team is all about experimentation rapid iteration and driving sustainable business impact. Whether its designing scalable architectures for high-traffic pages building robust A/B testing frameworks or integrating global marketing platforms the Growth teams contributions directly shape how we attract and retain customers worldwide.
Joining the Growth team means youll have a front-row seat to the most crucial stage of our product lifecycle and play a pivotal role in fueling the next wave of our global expansion.
What Youll Do
Talent Strategy & People Growth
Lead the talent strategy for your organization. Recruit onboard and develop top-tier engineers and managers building a diverse team and robust succession plans for sustained velocity.
Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization (including managers and senior ICs): set goals establish career paths run performance and compensation processes and cultivate a culture of ownership inclusion and excellence.
Set goals and development targets for the engineers within the team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress.
Manage coach and grow a team of engineers through regular feedback performance management and career development.
Support hiring and onboarding to scale the team sustainably.
Strategic Alignment & Stakeholder Management
Lead cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal Risk Operations Support and other engineering teams.
Effectively communicate progress insights and the business impact of initiatives to executive leadership and other stakeholders across the company.
Assure the collaboration between your team and other teams including local/global engineering teams infrastructure teams and product manager teams.
Provide strategic leadership for a mission-critical platform aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
Who You Are
10 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams (small to mid-sized).
Proven ability to recruit onboard and develop top-tier engineers including building succession plans and career ladders.
Experience running performance and compensation processes and fostering an inclusive high-accountability engineering culture.
Ability to navigate ambiguity make technical tradeoffs and align engineering efforts with business objectives and success metrics.
Excellent skills in translating technical concepts for stakeholders across Legal Risk Compliance and Executive leadership.
Track record of building API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.
Preferred Qualifications / What Will Set You Apart
Experience partnering with Growth/Marketing teams to solve end-to-end GTM operations and drive product adoption.
Experience identifying opportunities to leverage AI for user acquisition churn prediction or personalized customer journeys.
Track record of building new products or teams from scratch and scaling them as adoption grows.
Knowledge of data warehousing customer segmentation and analytics tools to drive decision-making.
Minimum Qualifications
7 years of software engineering experience
Ability to recruit onboard and develop engineers
Experience running performance and compensation processes
Ability to navigate ambiguity make technical tradeoffs and align engineering efforts with business objectives and success metrics.
Excellent skills in translating technical concepts for stakeholders
Built API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport) or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page.
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.
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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About Company
Grow your business faster with Airwallex - global business accounts, high speed transfers, multi-currency cards, online payments, embedded finance, and more.
