Staff Software Engineer, Lending

The role

You will architect, design, and build secure, scalable systems for the lending platform. You will design and maintain services and APIs that allow clients to embed and consume credit products.

What you will do

• Lead design reviews and advise on systems architecture
• Mentor engineers to raise code quality and technical excellence
• Champion resilient distributed-systems design, automated testing, and observability
• Build and maintain secure, scalable, well-documented APIs
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver lending solutions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Seven or more years of hands-on software engineering experience
• At least two years in a technical leadership role
• Strong computer science foundations and object-oriented programming skills
• Experience building backend systems
• Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures in production environments
• Track record of designing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency, highly available distributed systems at scale
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, or CloudFront
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience leading technical direction and making architectural trade-offs

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, lending, payments, or credit products
• Experience building SaaS products offered as a platform
• Experience designing systems for embedded finance or enterprise clients

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.