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Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and evolution of payment acceptance infrastructure.
- Design and build scalable backend services, REST APIs, event-driven systems, and integration components within a microservices architecture.
- Drive initiatives across payment gateways, acquiring, issuing, card networks, and local payment methods.
- Partner with product, business, infrastructure, and external engineering teams to translate merchant needs into technical solutions.
- Conduct architectural reviews, address technical debt, and improve reliability, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
- Raise engineering quality through design practices, code quality, testing, observability, and mentorship.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including Staff-level technical leadership or equivalent ownership of complex backend systems.
- Strong experience designing and operating high-volume distributed systems, preferably in payments, fintech, commerce, or financial infrastructure.
- Recent hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring or Spring Boot.
- Expertise with REST APIs, backend microservices, Kafka-based event streams, and distributed data stores such as Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence, or similar.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability and operational tools such as New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, or Prometheus.
- Ability to lead projects from concept to production with a focus on quality, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
- Strong communication and cross-functional stakeholder influence skills.
- Preferred experience with payment gateways, acquiring platforms, issuing platforms, payment acceptance infrastructure, Visa, Mastercard, iDEAL, Klarna, Trustly, authorization, capture, refunds, chargebacks, settlement, reconciliation, fraud, risk, or PCI/compliance workflows.
- Preferred experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSDatadogDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinKubernetesPrometheusReactSpring Boot
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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