Airwallex

Senior Frontstack Engineer, Scale

Airwallex
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6 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain multi-tenant embedded finance infrastructure supporting enterprise customers.
  • Architect systems that aggregate platform-customer requests while meeting enterprise-grade availability, latency, and throughput requirements across data centers.
  • Own cross-domain features involving tax systems, compliance-driven flows, monetization tools, and related business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
  • Design enterprise integrations by translating business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Make architectural decisions that support enterprise sales outcomes and competitive differentiation.
  • Develop scalable, maintainable, and production-ready software.

Requirements

  • At least five years of software engineering experience with ReactJS and TypeScript.
  • Ability to choose appropriate levels of abstraction while balancing flexibility and simplicity in system and component design.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Pragmatic judgment when balancing performance optimization and delivery velocity.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales.
  • Ability to design for scale, maintainability, and production excellence.
  • Fintech, payments, or regulated-industry experience is a bonus.
  • Experience with OAuth2.0, API design, or developer documentation is a bonus.
  • Solutions engineering or customer-facing technical experience is a bonus.
  • Experience building BFF services or API aggregation layers using Node.js or similar is a bonus.
  • Comfort taking on scoped backend tasks when useful for delivery is a bonus.
  • Strong product sensibility and user empathy, including experience using user research in technical decisions, is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Bonus and RSUs are offered in addition to the stated compensation range.
  • The role involves working with a global team across Airwallex offices.

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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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