5 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture, long-term technical vision, engineering strategy, and framework selection for backend systems and the Yield squad.
- Own end-to-end delivery of client signup, investment, and redemption workflows from design through production.
- Build and maintain financial infrastructure including reconciliation controls, unit registries, and investment ledgers.
- Write high-quality, testable, reliable, and maintainable code and integrate with external investment providers.
- Promote engineering best practices around observability, API design, and robust integration rails.
- Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Design teams to deliver a strong business customer experience.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related major.
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges involving scalability, consistency, and latency.
- Mastery of backend technologies; the team uses Kotlin with Vert.x, Temporal, and Kafka.
- Experience with automated testing and quality control processes.
- Cloud technology experience with GCP or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience integrating observability tooling such as Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Benefits
- The role is based in Sydney.
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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.