Engineering Lead, Payments Platform

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

As an Engineering lead you will be responsible for working on a range of exciting initiatives across our international payments role includes both people & technical responsibilities and youll be responsible for both the product delivery & overall health of the Engineering Team.
We strongly value your experience in building designing and engineering payment systems (gateway acquiring issuing or equivalent). If you dont have them already you will learn all the intricacies of the Visa and Mastercard payment platforms. You will work closely with the payments product team and will be given the opportunity to interact with the partners engineering teams when required. As part of our core acquiring payment team you are building the next generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure and Merchant needs are always top of mind.

This role is based in Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers set goals and development targets for the engineers within the team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress

• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap prioritize projects and ship incrementally to production

• 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 such as MTTD and MTTR

• Contribute to the hiring training and development of the engineers within the managed team

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:

• 8 years of software engineering experience with a focus on low latency distributed systems

• At least one year experience in managing teams

• Strong computer science fundamentals. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using we are using Java or Kotlin Spring / Spring Boot

• Experience in designing and building REST APIs; High volume distributed systems; Kafka event streams; Distributed data storage systems (Cassandra Hazelcast Oracle Coherence or similar); GCP or AWS (EC2 RDS ELB CloudFront etc) docker and Kubernetes exposure; Javascript / Typescript

• Operational tooling such as New Relic StatsD Elk Datadog Prometheus

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in building a payment gateway acquiring platform or issuing platform

• Experience integrating Local Payment Methods (i.e. iDeal Klarna Trustly or equivalent) or Cards (i.e. Visa Mastercard etc.)

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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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