Engineering Manager, Growth

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 2200 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

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

Lead the talent strategy for your organization by recruiting onboarding and developing top-tier engineers and managers building a diverse team with robust succession plans for sustained velocity. Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization by setting goals establishing career paths running performance and compensation processes and cultivating a culture of ownership inclusion and excellence. Coach and grow your team through regular feedback performance management and career development plans while supporting hiring and onboarding to scale sustainably. Drive cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal Risk Operations Support and other engineering teams effectively communicating progress insights and business impact to executive leadership and key partners across the company. Foster strong collaboration between your team and local/global engineering infrastructure and product teams while providing strategic leadership for a mission-critical platform aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Who You Are

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

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience within the financial domain.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership users company-wide).

• Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.

• Experience thriving in a complex environment.

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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:

Manager