Senior Software Engineer, New Products

The role

You will turn strategic visions and AI capabilities into functional financial software. You will work within the Founders' Lab to run rapid proofs of concept and deliver end-to-end solutions across the stack.

What you will do

• Partner with the CEO and global leadership to turn strategic visions into financial software.
• Shape product direction by synthesising business requirements, regulatory realities, user needs and emerging technology.
• Run rapid proofs of concept and deploy products to live users.
• Test market fit and balance fast iteration with sound technical foundations.
• Deliver end-to-end solutions across the stack from backend architecture to frontend polish.
• Build clean, maintainable software from ambiguous executive direction.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in backend architecture.
• Ability to work confidently across the full stack.
• Track record of personally shipping products from scratch in a high-growth startup, corporate innovation lab or greenfield environment.
• Strong product and commercial judgement.
• Pragmatic, resourceful approach to problem-solving.
• Comfort working with high ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience building software that uses generative AI, large language models or intelligent workflow automation.
• Experience in fintech, payments, compliance or money-movement infrastructure.
• Experience as a startup founder, founding engineer or technical lead of a rapid-prototyping team.

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.