4 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with the CEO and global leadership to turn strategic visions and emerging AI capabilities into functional, market-ready software.
- Evaluate and implement fintech AI technologies and intelligent workflows for Airwallex’s financial platform.
- Prototype quickly to validate ideas, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and structure successful solutions for handoff and scale.
- Own delivery across the stack, including backend architecture, systems design, data models, and user interfaces.
- Establish technical foundations for incubation projects and transition successful projects into standalone product lines.
- Communicate technical trade-offs with infrastructure teams and present product outcomes to executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in greenfield environments.
- Strong product sense and the ability to connect engineering decisions to user experience, commercial impact, and business outcomes.
- Ability to work independently through ambiguity and translate high-level direction into technical specifications.
- Pragmatic, resourceful, and self-directed problem-solving approach.
- Deep backend and full-stack capabilities with strong fundamentals in high-performance backend ecosystems.
- Ability to build frontend interfaces while moving quickly.
- Clear communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred experience building software with generative AI, LLMs, or automated agent workflows.
- Preferred experience in fintech, payments, multi-currency ledgering, or regulated financial systems.
- Preferred experience as a founding engineer, technical lead of an R&D team, or technical co-founder.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model from the London office.
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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.