Product Lead, Payment Infrastructure

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 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.

At Airwallex product is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for visionaries to come build and scale our next-generation payments infrastructure. Our team brings together commercial strategy engineering design and regulatory expertise to deliver powerful highly reliable financial products to customers around the world. We obsess over the details push the boundaries of whats possible and build world-class solutions that scale globally.

As a Product Lead Payment Infrastructure you will play a defining role in shaping the core engines that power how money moves across our ecosystem. Youll lead our Payments Product team focusing on building integrating and optimizing the fundamental clearing and settlement platforms ledgers and banking integrations that interface with card networks local payment rails (e.g. ACH SEPA Faster Payments SWIFT) and our merchants wallets.

As we grow and scale our transaction volume worldwide this platform must be robust cost-efficient resilient and built to handle massive scale.

In this role you will lead key initiatives end-to-end including:

• Building & Scaling Core Payment Rails: Expanding our global footprint by integrating directly with new payment schemes banking partners and clearing systems to enable instant low-cost money movement worldwide.

• Optimizing Global Payment Flows: Enhancing platform capabilitiessuch as intelligent dynamic routing automated failovers fee netting and smart batchingto maximize authorization rates improve settlement speed and reduce cost per transaction.

• Strengthening Foundational Infrastructure: Driving the evolution of our ledger and reconciliation systems. You will ensure high availability liquidity management and absolute precision for financial reporting and regulatory compliance.

• Designing Scalable Developer Experiences: Crafting highly reliable elegant internal and external APIs that abstract away the complexity of global banking allowing other product teams to build seamlessly on top of your infrastructure.

You will work closely with engineering compliance finance operations and commercial teams to bring these critical capabilities to life shaping the foundation of one of the most dynamic fintech platforms in the world.

• 10 years of product management experience in a high-growth environment with a significant portion of that time dedicated to fintech payment platforms or core infrastructure products.

• Deep domain expertise: Strong understanding of global payment systems card networks clearing and settlement processes and double-entry ledger architecture.

• Technical fluency: The ability to engage confidently in complex architectural discussions alongside engineering counterparts around high-scale highly available mission-critical systems.

• Exceptional communication skills: The ability to translate deeply technical infrastructure strategy into clear business value for cross-functional and non-technical stakeholders.

• Analytical rigour: A sharp eye for detail structured problem-solving skills and a data-driven mindset to track system performance authorization rates and unit economics.

• Bias for action: Grit persistence and ownership to turn complex multi-layered infrastructural challenges into shipped solutions quickly.

• Bachelors degree or higher with strong academic performance; technical or engineering coursework is a strong plus.

• Experience building or scaling external-facing API products.

• Previous experience directly managing banking and payment network partnerships or navigating global regulatory compliance constraints.

This is a chance to own the core infrastructure that powers global money movementand make an outsized impact at one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in the world.

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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.

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