Airwallex

Staff Software Engineer, Business Accounts

AU - Sydney. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will build the intelligent orchestration layer connecting Cash, Yield, Lending and broader Airwallex product surfaces. You will shape the architecture and long-term technical vision of backend systems for the Yield squad.

What you will do

  • Own the delivery of core investment workflows from design through production.
  • Build and maintain mission-critical financial infrastructure including reconciliation controls, unit registries and investment ledgers.
  • Write high-quality, testable code focused on reliability and maintainability.
  • Integrate with external investment providers.
  • Raise engineering standards across observability, API design, automated testing and robust integration rails.
  • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Design and other teams to deliver reliable experiences for businesses.

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering or a related field.
  • Experience solving distributed-systems challenges involving scalability, consistency and latency.
  • Strong backend engineering experience.
  • Experience with automated testing and software quality processes.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as GCP or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience integrating observability tooling such as Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus or Grafana.
  • Experience designing, building and operating reliable production systems end to end.

Nice to have

  • Experience in financial services, lending, payments or credit products.
  • Experience building SaaS products or platform offerings.
  • Experience with investment workflows, ledgers, reconciliation or other financial infrastructure.
  • Experience working in an early-stage or greenfield product area.

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.