Engineering Lead, Scale

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 250000 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 2300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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.

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 Scale engineering team at Airwallex builds the foundational systems that power our embedded finance platform at global scale. The team owns multi-tenant infrastructure drives cross-domain product capabilities and helps design technical solutions for enterprise customers.

Key areas of ownership include:

Embedded Finance Platform: Build and maintain the infrastructure powering customers like Rippling Navan Qantas and SHEIN with strong SLAs for availability latency and throughput.

Cross-Domain Product Features: Own complex features that span business regulatory and technical domains such as tax compliance and monetization.

Solutions Architecture: Translate enterprise customer requirements into scalable technical solutions that support major commercial opportunities.

As an Engineering Lead Scale you will lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallexs embedded finance products. This role combines people leadership technical direction and delivery ownership.

You will manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health execution and long-term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and involved at an architectural level your focus is enabling the team to do its best work.

• Manage coach and grow a team of engineers through feedback performance management and career development.

• Set technical direction for scalable reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design.

• Ensure high standards for system design code quality testing and operational excellence.

• Drive improvements across reliability observability security and developer productivity.

• Work cross-functionally with product design compliance sales and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities.

• Help translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.

• 5 years of software engineering experience with at least 1 years in a people leadership role.

• Strong backend development experience with Java/Spring Boot.

• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed production systems.

• Strong system design and object-oriented design fundamentals.

• Ability to balance abstraction simplicity and speed in technical decision-making.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution.

• Experience in fintech payments or other regulated domains.

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL Redis Kafka and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

• Experience with API design OAuth 2.0 or developer-facing platforms.

• Exposure to cross-region deployment data residency or customer-facing technical architecture.

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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:

Senior IC