Senior Software Engineer, New Products

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 Founders Lab is Airwallexs elite internal innovation hub. Operating like an agile startup backed by our global network we partner directly with our CEO and Co-Founder to architect build and ship next-generation Fintech AI Innovations and 0-to-1 product lines.

We dont build in isolation nor do we over-engineer for theoretical problems. Our mandate is high-velocity validation: we take raw ambitious and ambiguous concepts from the executive suite build the MVP and deploy it onto our global financial infrastructure to test with real users.

We look for High-Agency Builders. There are no layers of middle management or rigid ticketing queues here. You will hold complete end-to-end technical and product ownershipwearing the hat of a Product Manager to define the what and the why and acting as a lead engineer to build the how.

What Youll Do

• Co-Author 0-to-1 Products: Partner directly with the CEO and global leadership to turn raw strategic visions and disruptive AI capabilities into functional market-ready financial software in weeks not quarters.

• Embody the Product Engineer Mindset: Synthesize business requirements regulatory realities and cutting-edge tech. You arent just writing code to a spec; you are evaluating product scope and user friction to shape the product roadmap.

• Execute with Velocity: Bias heavily toward action. Run rapid proofs-of-concept deploy them to live users to test market fit and constantly balance rapid feature iteration with structural soundness.

• Deliver End-To-End Solutions: While backend-heavy and architecturally sound you are a generalist at heart. You will do whatever it takes to get a product into the hands of global usersfrom API design to frontend polish.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years of software engineering experience with a deep foundation in backend architecture and a proven ability to confidently flex full-stack when the mission requires it.

• Startup or R&D DNA: A track record of personally shipping products from scratch in high-growth startups corporate innovation labs or fast-paced greenfield environments.

• Sharp Product & Commercial Intuition: You challenge assumptions. You care immensely about user experience and business impact evaluating technical decisions through a commercial lens.

• Pragmatic & Resourceful: You have a strong get things done attitude. You dont wait for a perfect blueprint or permissionyou find creative pathways around institutional or technical roadblocks.

• High Ambiguity Tolerance: You thrive when the path forward is undefined successfully translating high-level executive visions into clean maintainable software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity or hands-on experience building software that leverages Generative AI LLMs or intelligent workflow automation.

• Fintech payments or experience dealing with compliance and money-movement rails.

• Prior experience as a startup founder founding engineer or technical lead of a rapid-prototyping team.

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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