9 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services for card issuing, transaction processing, and settlement.
- Contribute to scalable, resilient distributed system design and implementation.
- Write high-quality, well-tested, maintainable, and operationally ready code.
- Design and implement reliable, well-documented APIs for internal teams and external customers.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and incident retrospectives.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders across regions.
- Mentor peer engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Improve reliability through monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation.
- Identify and proactively address performance, scalability, and resiliency issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related major.
- At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend development experience using Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
- Solid computer science fundamentals and understanding of object-oriented design.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
- Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Fintech, payments, or other high-reliability domain experience is preferred.
- Experience with JVM-based frameworks such as Spring or Spring Boot is preferred.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKotlinKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunkSpring Boot
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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.