3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve shared native mobile architecture across iOS and Android, including navigation, state management, networking, offline strategies, error handling, and modularisation.
- Own shared mobile libraries and frameworks for design systems, analytics, feature flags, experimentation, authentication, payments, and observability.
- Own application authentication and authorization mechanisms and ensure shared components are stable, documented, and adoptable by product teams.
- Drive mobile application security, including anti-tampering measures, certificate pinning, and security best practices.
- Track platform metrics such as crash-free sessions, ANRs, app startup time, bundle size, and network performance, and improve mobile reliability and quality.
- Strengthen mobile observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and crash reporting.
- Own and improve mobile CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, templates, documentation, and automation.
- Manage the end-to-end iOS and Android release process and lead the on-call rotation for critical platform incidents.
- Define and enforce mobile engineering best practices and lead cross-squad technical initiatives from problem definition through rollout and adoption.
- Align engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, and backend/platform teams around technical direction and trade-offs.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, design reviews, pairing, coaching, and contributions to hiring and onboarding.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of experience building native iOS or Android applications, including at least 3+ years operating at a Senior or Staff level.
- Deep expertise in either iOS technologies such as Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and async/await, or Android technologies such as Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines, and Hilt, with commercial knowledge of both platforms.
- Proven experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architectures, including modularisation, design systems, networking, or offline support.
- Strong focus on code quality, reliability, testability, maintainability, automated testing, and meaningful test coverage.
- Experience owning and improving mobile CI/CD pipelines, including build optimization, test stability, and release workflows.
- Ability to influence without authority, align engineers, product managers, and designers, and make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience defining mobile platform roadmaps and owning shared mobile libraries or frameworks used by multiple product teams is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with mobile design systems, component libraries, analytics, experimentation, feature flagging, and observability tooling is preferred.
- Experience in payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS domains and in mentoring senior engineers, hiring, or growing mobile teams is preferred.
- Contributions to the mobile community or evidence of thought leadership in mobile architecture and foundations are preferred.
Benefits
- Role can be based in Singapore or Melbourne.
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