Airwallex

Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

Airwallex
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$180k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve shared native mobile architecture across iOS and Android, including navigation, state management, networking, offline strategies, error handling, and modularisation.
  • Own shared mobile libraries and frameworks for design systems, analytics, feature flags, experimentation, authentication, payments, and observability.
  • Own application authentication and authorization mechanisms and ensure platform components are stable, documented, and extensible.
  • Drive mobile security, including anti-tampering measures, certificate pinning, and security best practices.
  • Improve crash-free sessions, ANRs, app start-up time, bundle size, network performance, reliability, and end-to-end observability.
  • Own and improve mobile CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, templates, documentation, and automation.
  • Manage the end-to-end iOS and Android release process and lead the on-call rotation for critical platform incidents.
  • Define and enforce mobile engineering best practices and lead cross-squad technical initiatives from problem definition through rollout and adoption.
  • Write clean, testable, well-structured code on iOS or Android while mentoring engineers through design reviews, pairing, and coaching.
  • Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and the growth of Airwallex’s mobile engineering community.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience building native iOS or Android applications, including at least 3+ years at Senior or Staff level.
  • Deep expertise in iOS or Android technologies and commercial knowledge of both platforms.
  • Proven experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architectures, including areas such as modularisation, design systems, networking, or offline support.
  • Strong focus on code quality, reliability, testability, maintainability, automated testing, and meaningful coverage.
  • Experience owning and improving mobile CI/CD pipelines, build optimisation, test stability, and release workflows.
  • Ability to influence without authority and align engineers, product managers, and designers around technical direction and trade-offs.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience defining mobile platform roadmaps, owning shared mobile libraries or frameworks, and working with mobile design systems, analytics, experimentation, feature flags, and observability tooling.
  • Preferred experience in payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS; mentoring senior engineers; hiring and growing mobile teams; or contributing to the mobile community.

Benefits

  • Role can be based in Singapore, Melbourne, or San Francisco.
  • Opportunity to work on mobile foundations powering global payments and financial products.
  • Mentorship, career growth, and participation in hiring and mobile engineering community development.

Tech Stack

GitHub ActionsKotlinSwiftSwiftUI

Categories

Mobile
Airwallex

About Airwallex

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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