Staff Software Engineer, Ecosystem

The role

You will lead the technical direction of the ecosystem platform by connecting financial products with customer software. You will design platforms and integrations across various systems and build secure APIs, SDKs, and webhooks.

What you will do

• Lead the technical roadmap for the App Marketplace and Extension Framework
• Contribute to architectural decisions, coding standards, observability patterns and security practices
• Design and evolve platforms and integrations across accounting, HR, ERP, marketplace, payment and open-banking systems
• Build secure, reliable APIs, SDKs, webhooks and UI-extension patterns
• Improve developer experience through documentation, sandboxes, and tooling
• Partner with engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams

Required qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of experience developing internet applications, large financial systems, or e-commerce platforms
• Strong programming or scripting skills in a language such as Java, Kotlin, C++, Python or a similar language
• Deep familiarity with the standard library, idiomatic usage, and best practices of your primary programming language
• Direct experience building or maintaining a public-facing developer platform, app marketplace, or extension framework
• Experience designing scalable systems and making sound architectural decisions across complex technical domains
• A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from technical strategy through delivery

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in Domain-Driven Design and applying it to complex business logic and microservice boundaries
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and advanced observability tools
• Experience integrating AI or large language models to automate integration workflows or improve developer tooling

About the company

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