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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You’re humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide the technical leadership and architectural vision for our Seattle-based Productivity squad. The Engineering Productivity team acts as a force multiplier for Airwallex, and you will be responsible for defining domain-level strategies that influence our global engineering organization. This role involves working closely with leadership to accelerate the delivery of AI-driven tooling and global CI/CD optimization.

What you will do:

1. Strategic Leadership: Define domain-level technical roadmaps and own the end-to-end delivery of complex productivity and platform projects.

2. AI Strategy: Evaluate, prototype, and deploy AI/ML-powered solutions such as AI-assisted code reviews and automated test generation.

3. Scale CI/CD Architecture: Architect high-efficiency pipelines that support diverse languages and deployment targets across a global, distributed organization.

4. Technical Mentorship: Review RFCs, provide deep architectural insights, and mentor senior engineers to raise the overall engineering bar.

5. System Design: Design and optimize microservices frameworks to ensure high availability, scalability, and service quality for internal platforms.

Qualifications:

1. A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership.

2. Expertise in designing large-scale distributed, high-concurrency, and high-availability systems.

3. Mastery of server technologies to optimize service response, data queries, and infrastructure efficiency.

4. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Aliyun) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Kubernetes).

5. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical strategy across a global organization.

Preferred Skills:

1. Experience building or integrating AI-powered developer tools or internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage).

2. Deep understanding of observability infrastructure (Logs, metrics, traces) and messaging systems (Kafka) at enterprise scale.

3. Domain knowledge on distributed systems and cloud native tech stack.

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

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.

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.