Senior Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

The role

You will lead one or more teams building and operating core systems for issuing products including card lifecycle management and transaction processing. You will focus on team health, execution, and technical direction for scalable financial workflows.

What you will do

• Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams
• Build a strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding
• Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems
• Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence
• Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities
• Guide pragmatic technology and platform decisions

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 4+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example, Kafka
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains
• Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot
• Prior experience leading teams responsible for high-availability, low-latency systems
• Cloud experience with GCP

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.