Airwallex

Senior Solutions Engineer - Payments

Airwallex
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor on high-value payments implementations and expansions, shaping integration approaches, system configuration, and solution design.
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable architectures and integration blueprints, including appropriate use of APIs and third-party connectors.
  • Lead technical discovery with sales teams by understanding customer systems, data flows, and workflows.
  • Troubleshoot integration hurdles and guide customers through complex configuration decisions without writing code directly.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to deliver implementations on time, within scope, and to a high quality standard.
  • Create internal documentation, playbooks, and lightweight tooling for integration-heavy use cases.
  • Provide customer and integration feedback to Product and Engineering to influence roadmap prioritization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Business, Finance, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in technical pre-sales managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology or financial services implementations.
  • 8+ years of client-facing delivery or professional services experience in SaaS, fintech, consulting, systems integration, or enterprise implementation.
  • Proven success delivering cross-functional projects involving executives, technical teams, and operations stakeholders.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills, including leading steering meetings and influencing decisions without direct authority.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with API-based payments integrations or products.
  • Preferred: experience managing strategic or enterprise engagements within broader account teams while protecting technical quality and scope.
  • Preferred: ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments using structured and pragmatic decision-making.

Benefits

  • Role is based in San Francisco with three days in the office.
  • Implementation coverage spans the United States.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Airwallex

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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