5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of core risk services, including real-time detection, decision engines, and risk tooling.
- Design and evolve distributed, event-driven risk architectures supporting global products and regulatory requirements.
- Own complex initiatives from high-level design and technical specifications through implementation, rollout, and continuous improvement.
- Write production code primarily in Java and Spring Boot and lead design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions.
- Partner with engineering and product managers to shape roadmaps, define milestones, and translate business and risk objectives into engineering solutions.
- Define and enforce standards for code quality, observability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Integrate models, rules, and features into production systems and design experimentation and evaluation capabilities.
- Improve on-call readiness, incident response, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience patterns.
- Mentor and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors, through coaching, pair programming, design guidance, and feedback.
- Collaborate with platform, data, SRE, security, and product engineering teams on interfaces, SLAs, and ownership boundaries.
- Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including substantial ownership and operation of complex distributed production systems.
- Deep experience in risk, fraud, fintech, payments, banking, trading, or another high-stakes domain where correctness and reliability are critical.
- Strong Java proficiency, including multithreading, high-concurrency patterns, performance tuning, and networked service design.
- Hands-on distributed-systems experience, including event-driven architectures, partitioning and sharding, consistency models, caching, and resiliency patterns.
- Proficiency with Spring or Spring Boot and build tools such as Gradle or Maven.
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of observability and operations, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and incident management for large-scale systems.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end and influence engineers and stakeholders without formal management authority.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with rule engines, feature stores, model serving frameworks, real-time stream processing, and experimentation platforms.
- Preferred working knowledge of machine learning in production, including model lifecycle, feature engineering, evaluation metrics, and online/offline consistency.
- Preferred experience with Cassandra, Redis, NoSQL databases, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
- Preferred polyglot experience with Kotlin, Scala, Python, or Golang.
- Preferred cloud experience with Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or GCP.
- Familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2, and data privacy and protection practices is preferred.
- Demonstrated impact as a Staff or Principal Engineer in high-growth, high-scale environments is preferred.
Benefits
- The role is based in Singapore.
Tech Stack
Alibaba CloudApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleJavaKotlinKubernetesMavenPythonRedisScalaSpring Boot
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