Engineering Director, Org & Identity

The role

You will lead the engineering strategy and execution for core identity and organization foundations. This includes user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modeling, account ownership, and organization-level workflows.

What you will do

• Own the technical direction for highly available, scalable, and secure systems for identity and organization foundations.
• Translate complex identity, security, and organizational requirements into platform capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Onboarding.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence in architecture, delivery, operational reliability, and security.
• Balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, account management, or other foundational platform capabilities.
• Strong technical depth in designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
• Experience setting technical strategy and translating ambiguous business, product, and security needs into clear engineering priorities.
• A track record of building and developing high-performing engineering teams, including through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
• Experience partnering effectively with product, design, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability.
• Clear, direct communication and the ability to influence at both technical and executive levels.

Nice to have

• Comfortable owning the roadmap yourself
• Own the outcome and don't wait for permission to fix what's broken
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly
• Communicate clearly and directly across cultures
• Know when to align and when to just decide
• Connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details

About the company

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