12 months ago
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 is a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from business account, payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. With our proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of global payments and financial operations, empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock new opportunities and grow beyond borders. Proudly founded in Melbourne, Airwallex supports over 150,000 businesses globally and is trusted by brands such as Brex, Canva, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more. For more information, visit http://www.airwallex.com