1 year ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of complex backend systems supporting the Cards product.
- Drive cross-functional technical initiatives and align them with long-term engineering goals.
- Own backend services across ideation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Guide scalable, secure, and high-performing system design decisions.
- Establish engineering best practices for observability, testing, and API design.
- Mentor and support engineers’ growth across the team.
- Collaborate with product, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership experience.
- Proven experience architecting and scaling backend systems and APIs in production.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Expertise in at least one backend language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
- Deep understanding of modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Strong commitment to code quality, reliability, and performance.
- Preferred: experience leading cross-team initiatives and influencing system-wide technical direction.
- Preferred: proficiency with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
- Preferred: familiarity with security and compliance considerations in financial services.
- Preferred: passion for mentoring and helping others grow.
Benefits
- The role is based in Singapore.
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About Airwallex
Airwallex builds a global payments and financial operations platform for businesses, offering payment acceptance, multi-currency accounts, FX and transfers, card issuing, treasury and spend management via APIs and web apps. It monetizes through transaction and foreign-exchange fees and related account services. Founded in Melbourne in 2015 and privately held, the company serves customers worldwide, with notable users including Brex, Canva and Qantas.