Senior Software Engineer, Scale
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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.
What the Scale Team Does
Embedded Finance Platform: Build and maintain the multi-tenant infrastructure powering companies like Rippling Navan Qantas and SHEIN. Youll architect systems that aggregate requests from all platform customers meeting enterprise-grade SLAs for availability latency and throughput while handling cross-data-center scenarios.
Cross-Domain Product Features: Own features that require synthesizing knowledge across business regulatory and technical domainsareas where no single existing team has full coverage like tax systems compliance-driven flows or monetization tools.
Solutions Architecture: Design integrations for enterprise prospects by translating their business requirements into technical solutions. Your architectural decisions directly influence deal outcomesfrom enabling multi-million dollar contracts to differentiating in competitive sales.
Who You Are
You might be a great fit if you
Have 5 years of software engineering experience in Java/Spring Boot
Excel at making the right level of abstractionbalancing flexibility and simplicity in system/component design
Demonstrate clean communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Make pragmatic decisions on when to optimize for performance vs. velocity based on business impact
Thrive in cross-functional environments spanning Product Design Compliance and Sales
Design for scale maintainability and production excellence
Bonus if you have
Fintech payments or regulated industry experience
High-scale performance tuning (100k QPS large user bases strict latency SLAs)
Multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture background
Proficiency with PostgreSQL Redis Kafka or cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Experience with OAuth2.0 API design or developer documentation
Cross-region deployment or data residency compliance experience
Solutions engineering or customer-facing technical experience
Why Join Us
Build Something That Matters: Your work directly impacts how millions of people use financial services. Companies like Rippling and SHEIN rely on infrastructure youll build. Youre not just writing codeyoure shaping how businesses embed finance.
Grow Beyond Engineering: Youll develop expertise that extends beyond technical skills: understanding customer business models navigating regulatory landscapes influencing enterprise sales. This is career growth that prepares you for technical leadership product roles or even founding your own company.
Join a World-Class Team: Work with exceptional engineers product thinkers and designers across the globe. At Airwallex youll be challenged supported and surrounded by people who are building something meaningful together.
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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Senior IC
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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.
