Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

About the team

The financial Platform is crucial in powering Airwallex's global operations by facilitating client wallet transactions and ensuring the financial accuracy of client ledgers. Primarily based in Singapore, our lean team delivers a robust, high-performance distributed multi-currency wallet platform that supports the continuous growth of Airwallex products like global transfers, payments and acquiring, card issuing, and lending. As a dynamic group of engineers, we not only build impactful platforms and products but also develop tools and processes to enhance our efficiency and effectiveness.

What you’ll do

• Lead and Mentor: Guide and support a team of talented engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment that encourages innovation and growth.

• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Actively engage in the development process, providing hands-on guidance and taking responsibility for presenting and defending technical designs and decisions.

• Develop Cutting-edge Solutions: Lead the development of a transaction engine focused on scalability, financial accuracy, and adaptability.

• Build and maintain a distributed multi-currency wallet platform, providing precise financial oversight for client ledgers.

• Collaborate across teams with product and other engineer teams to ensure alignment between technical solutions and business objectives.

• Innovate productivity-enhancing tools and processes, exploring AI opportunities to continually improve our engineering practices and system observabilities.

• Thrive in a collaborative, energetic team environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning.

This role is based in Singapore.

Who you are

• Experienced in Distributed Systems: You have a strong foundation in designing and implementing distributed systems, with hands-on experience in backend development and database technologies.

• Strong Communicator: You effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.

• Collaborative and Inclusive: You foster a team environment that values diverse perspectives and promotes continuous learning.

• Analytical and Strategic: You leverage data to drive decisions, aligning engineering efforts with business objectives for optimal outcomes.

• Proactive and Resourceful: You take initiative and skillfully navigate complex technical challenges to deliver impactful results.

• Meticulous and Accuracy-Driven: You prioritize financial correctness and have an eye for detail, ensuring reliability in client ledgers and transactions.

• Curious Learner: You're eager to explore new tools and technologies, including AI, to innovate and enhance your technical expertise.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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 of developers

• Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with docker and Kubernetes

• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures

• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes

• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana

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