Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

The role

You will lead one or more teams building and operating core systems for issuing products. This includes card lifecycle management, high-throughput transaction processing, and clearance, settlement, and dispute workflows.

What you will do

• Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams.
• Build a strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
• Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems.
• Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities.
• Guide pragmatic technology and platform decisions regarding innovation, stability, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 2+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example, Kafka
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains
• Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot
• Prior experience leading teams responsible for high-availability, low-latency systems
• Cloud experience with GCP

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.