Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform & AI Enablement

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time intelligent economy. More than 676000 businesses including McLaren Racing Qantas SHEIN and TikTok use us directly or through our platform partners to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. Were the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident but by design. A decade plus 85 licenses and a financial infrastructure spanning North America Europe the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Were co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with more than 2300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy people who move fast with good judgment dig in with real curiosity and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

The Platform Engineering team is architecting Airwallexs next-generation foundational infrastructure. We are moving beyond standard pipelines to build a high-performance distributed ecosystem that powers real-time AI enablement and global financial data.

We aim to push the boundaries of distributed storage stream processing and service-layer interfaces. We are looking for Engineers Engineersbuilders who enjoy diving into the internals of distributed systems optimizing JVM performance and implementing robust architectural patterns like Lakehouse and real-time data.

• Architect & Build: Lead technical decision-making and custom development for core infrastructure components extending from foundational storage to high-availability service layers.

• Systems Optimization: Deep-dive into performance tuning and systems internalssuch as state management checkpointing and exactly-once semanticsto ensure millisecond-level accuracy at global scale.

• AI Infrastructure: Develop and integrate the Knowledge Platform enabling AI-driven products through scalable vector indexing agentic workflows and real-time data streaming.

• Distributed Systems at Scale: Own the full SDLC for high-performance distributed systems (batch and streaming) that process petabytes of data across 30 global regions.

• Engineering Rigor: Advocate for elite software engineering practices contributing to shared tooling SDKs and automation frameworks that enhance the productivity of engineering teams company-wide.

• Mentorship: Act as a technical beacon and mentor for mid-level engineers driving project delivery through design reviews and technical leadership.

• Experience: Have 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.

• First Principles Thinking: Possess a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals including distributed systems memory management and networking protocols.

• The Builder Stack: Are proficient in Java Kotlin or Go. You should have hands-on experience (or the desire to deep-dive) into the internals of Kafka Flink Spark Kubernetes or OLAP engines.

• Ownership Mindset: Have a proven track record of taking 0-1 ownership of complex technical challenges from initial design to production stability.

• Curiosity & Impact: Are intrinsically motivated to explore emerging tech in AI/ML infrastructure and real-time systems to create tangible business impact.

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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