Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

The role

You will design and implement new capabilities for the international payments platform. You will build REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture.

What you will do

• Design and implement new capabilities across the international payments platform
• Build REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture
• Shape the next generation of Payment Acceptance infrastructure
• Conduct architectural reviews
• Address technical debt
• Improve the operational effectiveness of current and upcoming solutions
• Partner with the Payments Product team and external partner engineering teams

Required qualifications

• Over four years of experience using contemporary engineering methodologies
• Experience taking concepts from inception through implementation
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Recent hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring or Spring Boot
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience working with high-volume distributed systems
• Experience with Kafka event streams
• Experience with distributed data storage systems such as Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence, or similar technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, including services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, or CloudFront
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, or Prometheus

Nice to have

• Extensive experience developing payment gateways, acquiring platforms, issuing platforms, or equivalent payment systems
• Experience integrating local payment methods such as iDEAL, Klarna, or Trustly
• Experience working with major card schemes such as Visa or Mastercard

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.