2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve distributed payment systems spanning real-time local clearing, SWIFT, and proprietary treasury routing across more than 150 countries.
- Build idempotent and fault-tolerant systems for multi-currency reconciliation, asynchronous settlement, and compensation logic across banking partners.
- Define SLAs and design graceful degradation and observability capabilities for payment-network reliability and partner outages.
- Use payment telemetry to optimize routing, identify bottlenecks, and measure settlement speed and conversion impacts.
- Drive technical direction through design reviews and RFC processes while collaborating with engineering teams across multiple global hubs.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software development and modern engineering practices.
- Deep expertise in system architecture and high-quality engineering.
- A strong track record of impact as a technical lead and experience leading effective teams.
- Ability to mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and promote knowledge sharing.
- Strong analytical, data-driven, prioritization, ownership, collaboration, and continuous-learning skills.
- Empathy for customer needs and the ability to build intuitive, impactful products.
Benefits
- Professional development and career growth opportunities in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
- Collaboration with global engineering teams across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
About Airwallex
Airwallex is a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from business account, payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. With our proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of global payments and financial operations, empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock new opportunities and grow beyond borders. Proudly founded in Melbourne, Airwallex supports over 150,000 businesses globally and is trusted by brands such as Brex, Canva, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more. For more information, visit http://www.airwallex.com