Staff Software Engineer, Lending Platform

The role

You will architect, design, and build secure, scalable systems for the lending platform. You will own the technical direction of lending services, APIs, and distributed systems to support enterprise clients.

What you will do

• Lead design reviews and shape systems architecture
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for code quality and engineering practices
• Build resilient, high-throughput services for global enterprise scale
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and other engineering teams
• Own technical foundations for secure, scalable lending services and APIs

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• At least 2 years in a technical leadership role
• Strong computer science fundamentals and object-oriented programming skills
• Experience building backend systems
• Strong experience with Java or Kotlin and the Spring or Spring Boot framework, or comparable backend technologies
• Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures in production environments
• Proven track record designing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency, highly available distributed systems at scale
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, lending, payments, or credit products
• Experience building SaaS products offered as a platform

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system used by businesses to run financial operations or build financial products. It provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.