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.

Airwallex Bill Pay provides customers with a single place to easily collect, approve, and pay vendor invoices, all while syncing into their accounting system for faster reconciliation. A key part of Airwallex’s Business Account suite, this team help scale our Bill Pay product to meet the growing demands of data and feature complexity.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help define and implement our team’s technical strategy to meet an evolving set of product and engineering challenges. You will take ownership of projects from conception to delivery, leading the building of APIs, workflows and data pipelines to serve our ever expanding product needs.

Our team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges, paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritise projects and ship incrementally to production. 

• Complex feature delivery, including breaking down requirements, providing accurate time estimates, and actively engaging in team planning and discussions.

• Support the engineering team on architecture evolution, quality improvement and engineering risk mitigation.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and delightful user experience.

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:

• Mastery of backend technologies. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin with SpringBoot

• Have a strong customer oriented mindset with a track record of product thinking

• Have a strong aptitude for system thinking, writing high-quality code and documentation

• Engaged with cloud technologies such as GCP/ AWS

• Have a demonstrated history of using a wide range of appropriate testing practices

• API design best practices

• Enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of individuals, bridging gaps between different teams and areas of expertise.

Preferred Qualifications:

• An interest in the financial domain

• Exposure to technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with data pipeline technologies like Kafka, KStreams/KTables or Flink

• Experience with payment processor, card scheme network, or fintech industry

Life at Airwallex:

💸We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards  

💲We share our business success through every employee receiving equity

💻 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.

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.