Senior Frontend Engineer, AI

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

This team is building production AI that eliminates financial busywork for startups globally. Were delivering intelligent automation across payments payroll bookkeeping and taxfreeing founders to focus on building their companies instead of managing finances.

We leverage cutting-edge AI tooling across the spectrum: from prompt engineering and in-context learning to fine-tuned models and agentic systems choosing the right approach for each problem. We work backward from real founder pain points own customer outcomes and ship fast.

The team is small elite and builder-focused led by operators with a track record of shipping AI products at scale. Youll solve hard technical problems with real autonomy and direct customer impact.

About the Role

Youll build the user-facing layer that connects people with intelligent financial systems. Our stack is Vite React and Tailwind and your work will define how users trust understand and engage with AI-driven workflows.

What Youll Do

• Deliver responsive performant UIs using Vite React and Tailwind.

• Build modular design systems and component libraries.

• Translate complex backend and AI reasoning into intuitive user interfaces.

• Collaborate with backend and AI teams to design clean contracts and data flows.

• Continuously improve usability accessibility and performance.
  

What You Need to Have

• 5 years building modern frontend applications (React TypeScript).

• Strong product sense and customer-centric mindset.

• Experience with scalable frontend architectures and design systems.

• Proven ability to deliver polished high-impact experiences.

• Knowledge of testing frameworks (Cypress Playwright React Testing Library).

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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:

Senior IC