Staff Software Engineer, New Products

The role

You will work in the Founders’ Lab to turn high-level concepts into functional software and new product lines. You will partner with leadership to translate strategic visions into market-ready software and lead technical implementation of fintech AI technologies.

What you will do

• Partner with the CEO and global leadership to translate strategic visions into functional software.
• Lead technical evaluation and implementation of fintech AI technologies and intelligent workflows.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions by prototyping to validate ideas.
• Own delivery across the stack from data models to user interfaces.
• Establish technical foundations for incubation projects to transition into standalone product lines.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in greenfield environments.
• Strong product sense regarding user experience and business impact.
• Comfort with ambiguity and mapping technical specifications from high-level direction.
• Pragmatic, resourceful, and self-directed approach to solving problems.
• Deep backend and full-stack capabilities.
• Clear communication skills to discuss technical trade-offs and present outcomes to executives.

Nice to have

• Experience building software that leverages Generative AI, LLMs, or automated agent workflows.
• Experience in fintech, payments, multi-currency ledgering, or regulated financial systems.
• Prior experience as a founding engineer, technical lead of an R&D team, or technical co-founder.

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.