About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
The Team As a global engineering powerhouse, our teams are spread across Australia, China, USA, Netherlands, and Singapore, representing a vibrant mosaic of cultures and engineering viewpoints.
We are looking for a passionate, hands-on engineering lead with an interest in building scalable, distributed financial infrastructure to lead the development of a new platform to power Airwallex Yield - a hotly anticipated product which provides seamless investment opportunities to customers looking to earn a return on their cash.
The Role As an Engineering lead, you will help define and implement our team's engineering strategy which will include leading the selection and rollout of patterns and frameworks across the emerging Core Banking Yield squad. The role includes both people and technical responsibilities, and you'll be responsible for both the product delivery and overall health of the Engineering Team.
As a team, we own the client investment and settlement workflows (signup, investment, redemption), reconciliation control, unit registry/investment ledger and integration rails with our investment providers.
About you Have experience leading a team of engineers whilst remaining hands-on.
Have experience solving distributed systems challenges - scalability, consistency, latency.
Enjoy engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams.
Mastery of backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin w/ vert.x, Temporal & Kafka.
Engaged with cloud technologies like GCP/AWS with additional exposure to technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Have an interest in the financial domain.
Life at Airwallex: We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards. We share our business success through every employee receiving equity. Enjoy two epic working spaces in the heart of Melbourne and Sydney. On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams. Your own Airwallex Virtual Card, with $1000 per year to spend on physical, lifestyle, health, or charitable donations. Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions. Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU. Generous parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leaves. Paid community and volunteer leave. Generous Employee Referral Program rewards for referring top talent.
Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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