Airwallex

Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

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1 day ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement capabilities for the international payments and Payment Acceptance platforms.
  • Build REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture connected to a React frontend.
  • Design and operate high-volume distributed systems for reliable payment processing across markets.
  • Conduct architectural reviews, address technical debt, and improve the operational effectiveness of current and future solutions.
  • Collaborate with the Payments Product team and engineering teams at external partners.

Requirements

  • More than four years of software engineering experience, with emphasis on continuous integration and quality engineering.
  • Experience taking concepts from inception through implementation and delivering thoroughly tested, high-quality solutions.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring or Spring Boot.
  • Experience designing and building REST APIs and working with high-volume distributed systems.
  • Experience with Kafka event streams and distributed data storage systems such as Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with GCP or AWS, including services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, or CloudFront.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, or Prometheus.
  • Preferred experience developing payment gateways, acquiring platforms, issuing platforms, or equivalent payment systems.
  • Preferred experience integrating local payment methods such as iDEAL, Klarna, or Trustly.
  • Preferred experience working with major card schemes such as Visa or Mastercard.
  • Experience in high-growth or scaling environments and comfort with ambiguity, ownership, and in-person collaboration.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Amsterdam with three days in the office each week.

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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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