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.

About the team:
Our team is creating the new generation of Foreign Exchange platform for our customers. We operate in 150 + countries in over 60 + currencies, helping our customers streamline payments around the world with market leading FX rates. Our mission is to streamline our FX pricing & risk management capability and re-architect the APIs and workflow engines that power our FX enabled customer experience across payments, conversions and multi-currency card spend.

What you’ll do:
As the Financial Markets Engineering Manager/Director, this high-impact role will collaborate closely cross-functionally with product, design and engineering teams across Airwallex. You will lead a high performing engineering teams and leaders, evolving our mission critical Foreign Exchange and Liquidity platform in continued growth as our core product. The team is focused on providing seamless global native capability across Airwallex's diverse product ecosystem, which also includes card issuing, payments and acquiring.


This senior role will include both people & technical leadership responsibilities, and will require you to design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with the organization's senior leaders. You will be responsible for both the delivery & overall health of the Financial Markets engineering domain.

This role can be performed from Melbourne, Australia OR Singapore

Who you are:
We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Solid platform domain knowledge
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission critical, distributed systems
• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team (this role manages, managers)
• Hands on experience with event driven architectures
• Experience with backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot
• Evidence of working on high volume distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes
• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana
• Financial Markets, FX or Payments domain knowledge

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.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.