Airwallex

Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

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24 days ago

Base Salary

$180k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve shared native iOS and Android architecture, 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.
  • Drive mobile application security, reliability, performance, crash reduction, startup-time improvements, network performance, and end-to-end observability.
  • Own and improve mobile CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, templates, documentation, automation, and release workflows.
  • Manage the end-to-end iOS and Android release process and lead the on-call rotation for critical platform incidents.
  • Establish and enforce mobile engineering best practices and lead cross-squad technical initiatives from definition through rollout and adoption.
  • Align engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, and platform teams around technical direction and trade-offs.
  • Write high-quality code, mentor engineers through design reviews and coaching, and contribute to hiring and mobile community growth.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience building native mobile applications on iOS or Android, including at least 3+ years at Senior or Staff level.
  • Deep expertise in either iOS technologies including Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and async/await, or Android technologies including Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines, and Hilt, with commercial knowledge of both platforms.
  • Proven experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architectures, including modularisation, design systems, networking, or offline support.
  • Strong focus on testability, maintainability, code quality, reliability, automated testing, and meaningful use of coverage.
  • Experience owning and improving mobile CI/CD pipelines, including build optimisation, test stability, and release workflows.
  • Ability to influence without authority, align engineers and business partners, and make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes mobile platform roadmap ownership, shared mobile libraries, design systems, analytics, experimentation, feature flagging, observability tooling, payments or fintech, mentoring senior engineers, hiring, and mobile community contributions.

Benefits

  • The role can be based in Singapore, Melbourne, or San Francisco.

Tech Stack

GitHub ActionsiOSKotlinSwiftSwiftUI

Categories

Mobile
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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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