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.

About the team

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

The Mobile Foundations Team is responsible for establishing the core architecture and shared components that underpin our native mobile applications across Android and i OS platforms. This team focuses on creating a robust and scalable application foundation that provides both best-in-class security and the highly polished user experience we pride ourselves on.

What you’ll do

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Mobile Tech Lead to join our Mobile Foundations team.

As a Mobile Tech Lead, you will serve as the principal architect for our distributed global mobile team, overseeing core features and infrastructure across Android and i OS. You will work closely with product engineering teams to design and implement architectural patterns that ensure high-quality, consistent user experiences on both platforms. You will also set the security standards that are critical in our role as a leading financial services company.

This role combines deep technical expertise with product thinking, and will provide opportunities for cross-region, cross-departmental leadership.

This role can be based in Singapore or Sydney/Melbourne

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement foundational mobile features, including authentication, security, information architecture, notifications, and styling consistency, for both Android and i OS platforms.
  
• Drive the implementation of an architectural framework that allows our distributed global mobile team to rapidly iterate in parallel on their various product features.
  
• Define and enforce cross-platform architectural patterns to ensure scalability, maintainability, and code quality across mobile applications.
  
• Drive consistent user experience across Android and i OS by developing shared resources, style guides, and reusable UI components.
  
• Provide mentorship and foster a culture of mobile engineering best practices.
  
• Manage mobile CI/CD processes, including code-signing, release automation, and deployment, to ensure efficient and reliable app releases to app stores.
  
• Collaborate with backend, product, UX, and QA teams to align mobile architecture with overall product and business goals.
  

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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on mobile application development for both Android and i OS platforms.
  
• Strong proficiency in programming languages and frameworks for mobile development, such as Swift, Swift UI, Kotlin with coroutines, and Jetpack Compose.
  
• Strong understanding of agile software development methodologies and best practices.
  
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with fintech and global payment systems.
  

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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.