Staff Software Engineer, Growth

The role

You will define technical architecture and build foundational systems for the Growth Engineering platform. This involves building scalable backend infrastructure and AI-native capabilities to drive customer acquisition, activation, and retention.

What you will do

• Drive technical strategy and architecture for Growth Engineering platforms
• Build scalable backend infrastructure including APIs and distributed services
• Develop AI-native platform capabilities for personalized experiences and automated workflows
• Design for reliability, scale, performance, and security
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into technical solutions
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and Sales teams
• Provide architectural leadership and technical mentorship
• Make hands-on contributions to complex engineering problems

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Substantial experience in backend development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language
• Solid computer science fundamentals
• Object-oriented design skills
• Experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Spring Boot
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures
• Proven Staff-level technical leadership
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs

Nice to have

• Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or data-intensive applications
• Experience building AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability
• Experience with real-time data pipelines, streaming technologies, or large-scale event processing
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, containerization, and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with production observability and reliability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or equivalent
• Experience designing integrations across product, analytics, CRM, marketing, or other enterprise systems
• Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments

About the company

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