Senior Software Engineer, Spend

The role

You will build backend systems that power Spend's financial workflows for corporate cards, expenses, bills and procurement. You will own features end to end and shape scalable services for complex financial data and transaction workflows.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, secure backend services for Spend's financial workflows.
• Own features end to end from technical design to production operation.
• Shape long-term architecture of backend systems, APIs and distributed services.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Design and other Engineering teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through high-quality code, observability and technical mentorship.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and building backend systems and APIs in production.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Java, Kotlin, Go or Python.
• Solid understanding of REST API design and backend frameworks, such as Spring Boot.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or GCP, and container orchestration, such as Kubernetes.
• A strong focus on performance, reliability, maintainability and code quality.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus or Splunk.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses.