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Airwallex

Senior Backend Engineer, Financial Markets

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5 months ago
Melbourne, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend services for FX pricing, execution, and risk management.
  • Contribute to the evolution of FX platform architecture, focusing on performance and reliability.
  • Implement and maintain controls for pricing, limits, risk, and monitoring.
  • Work end-to-end on features from design to deployment and operational runbooks.
  • Collaborate with various teams to design APIs and data contracts.
  • Instrument services with metrics and logs for performance optimization.
  • Participate in code reviews and mentor less-experienced engineers.
  • Take part in on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
  • Strong programming experience in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs and working with relational databases.
  • Proficiency with event-driven architectures and message brokers like Kafka.
  • Strong focus on testing and quality assurance.
  • Good grasp of observability practices.
  • Clear communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

  • Contribute to a platform transforming the fintech landscape.
  • Opportunities for career growth and project leadership.
  • Work with the latest technologies in an innovative culture.
  • Join a team that values transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration.
  • Enjoy competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkagRPCJavaKotlinPostgreSQL

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