Engineering Lead, Scale

The role

You will lead a team building critical platform capabilities for embedded finance products. You will manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality.

What you will do

• Own technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems
• Partner with senior engineers on architecture and design
• Drive high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity
• Partner with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders
• Translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into technical solutions
• Coach and grow engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 1+ years in a people leadership role
• Strong backend development experience with an object-oriented programming language
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed production systems
• Strong system design and object-oriented design fundamentals
• Ability to balance abstraction, simplicity, and speed in technical decision-making
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer-facing platforms
• Exposure to cross-region deployment, data residency, or customer-facing technical architecture

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses.