Airwallex

Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI

US - San Francisco, Remote. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will design systems that make intelligent financial workflows reliable, auditable, and ready to scale. You will build typed, production-grade APIs and services in Python to power agentic workflows and real-time financial infrastructure.

What you will do

  • Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems that process high-volume, high-sensitivity financial data
  • Build typed, production-grade APIs and services in Python using FastAPI and Pydantic
  • Own data architecture end to end, including schema design, event models, ledger primitives, and storage layers
  • Develop resilient infrastructure primitives including queues, retries, idempotency, observability, and backpressure handling
  • Build feedback loops at the intersection of systems and AI
  • Ship platform foundations including internal frameworks, SDKs, and tooling
  • Partner closely with ML and product teams to productionize research-grade ideas
  • Define the architecture of an AI-native financial stack

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Substantial experience with Python at scale
  • Deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database design
  • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices
  • Familiarity with GCP services such as Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and KMS
  • Strong understanding of security and compliance best practices
  • Experience designing and operating reliable, production-grade backend systems
  • A track record of owning complex technical problems end to end
  • A strong interest in building the backend systems that power intelligent products

Nice to have

  • Experience building agentic workflows, AI copilots, or AI-native products
  • Experience with financial systems, ledgers, payments, accounting, or other high-integrity domains
  • Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, SDKs, or developer tooling
  • Experience partnering closely with ML and product teams to productionize research or prototypes

About the company

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