5 months ago
Melbourne, AustraliaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure backend services for the Cards product.
- Contribute to the architecture and long-term technical vision of backend systems.
- Own end-to-end delivery of features and improvements from design through production.
- Write high-quality, testable, reliable, and maintainable code.
- Promote engineering best practices, including observability and API design.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, design, and other cross-functional teams.
- Provide technical mentorship and support the growth of other engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and building backend systems and production APIs.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
- Understanding of REST API design and backend frameworks such as Spring Boot.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP and container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
- Strong focus on performance, reliability, and code quality.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk is preferred.
Benefits
- The role is based in Melbourne.
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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.