Engineering Lead, Regulatory Reporting

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

The Regulatory Reporting team builds and operates Airwallexs automated compliance reporting pipeline across 10 jurisdictions globally. We own the full stack: data modelling submission tooling AI-assisted review and the internal platforms that compliance teams rely on to meet their regulatory obligations.

We are a small high-leverage team. Every engineer has direct impact on Airwallexs global licence health.

What youll do

As an Engineering Lead you own both the technical direction and the day-to-day execution of the regulatory reporting engineering function. You lead a team of backend and frontend engineers define the architecture and act as the primary technical partner to Compliance Legal and Finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for regulatory reporting automation across all licensed entities and jurisdictions.

• Lead architecture decisions across data pipelines submission tooling and AI-assisted compliance workflows.

• Manage and grow a team of 48 engineers; provide technical mentorship conduct code and design reviews and set engineering standards.

• Own delivery of regulatory reporting milestones ensuring reports are accurate on time and auditable.

• Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Compliance Legal and Finance; translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications.

• Drive adoption of AI/LLM tooling to automate repetitive review gap analysis and interpretation tasks.

• Define and uphold data quality testing and reconciliation standards across all reporting models.

• Partner with the broader Core Banking engineering organisation on shared data platform capabilities.

Who you are

Minimum qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience including 2 years in a lead or staff engineer role.

• Strong backend engineering foundation Python Kotlin or Java; comfortable with SQL at scale.

• Proven track record leading delivery of complex multi-stakeholder technical programmes.

• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous regulatory or compliance requirements into clear engineering designs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable representing engineering to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services regulatory technology or compliance automation.

• Hands-on with dbt Databricks Spark or BigQuery in a production analytics engineering context.

• Familiarity with LLM/agent frameworks (RAG tool-use evaluation pipelines) for document-heavy domains.

• Experience operating in a multi-jurisdiction multi-entity environment.

• Track record building robust reconciliation and data quality frameworks for financial reporting.

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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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