2 months ago
Base Salary
$158k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Kotlin microservices and backend systems for high-traffic, high-availability growth applications.
- Implement service-to-service communication, orchestration, and fault-tolerance practices.
- Collaborate with data scientists and product managers on data pipelines, analytics platforms, and event-driven architectures.
- Ensure Growth data is accurate, reliable, and accessible for business decisions.
- Translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions with Frontend, Product, Design, and Marketing teams.
- Participate in architectural reviews, code reviews, and technical strategy sessions.
- Develop services supporting A/B testing, feature toggles, and real-time performance monitoring to improve engagement and conversions.
- Apply secure coding practices to protect user data, support regulatory compliance, and address vulnerabilities and security risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, engineering, or a related major.
- At least 5 years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
- Experience with domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput, low-latency, high-availability distributed systems.
- Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, plus familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Preferred experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring or Spring Boot.
- Preferred experience with GTM operations, data warehousing, customer segmentation, analytics tools, and products using AI and LLMs.
- Strong backend development expertise, analytical ability, collaboration, mentorship, ownership, and prioritization skills.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendGrowth Engineering
About Airwallex
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.