Airwallex

Staff Solutions Engineer - Payments

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11 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own technical pre-sales for complex client engagements involving global payments and financial products.
  • Advise customers and internal teams on integration approaches, system configuration, solution design, and implementation expansions.
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable architectures and recommend API and third-party connector integration blueprints.
  • Troubleshoot integration challenges and guide customers through complex configuration decisions without primarily writing code.
  • Create documentation, playbooks, and lightweight tooling to support integration-heavy use cases at scale.
  • Feed customer integration feedback to Product and Engineering to influence roadmap priorities.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and external stakeholders through pre-sales, go-live, and early optimisation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Business, Finance, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience in technical pre-sales or managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology or financial-services implementations.
  • At least 8 years of client-facing delivery or professional-services experience in SaaS, fintech, consulting, systems integration, or enterprise implementation.
  • Demonstrated success delivering cross-functional projects involving C-level executives, technical teams, and operations stakeholders.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, communication, presentation, steering-meeting, status-reporting, and influencing skills.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • London-based work arrangement with 3 days in the office per week.
  • Implementation coverage across EMEA.

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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