Senior Software Engineer, Productivity

The role

You will build platforms to help engineers move faster, ship higher-quality software, and operate reliably. You will work across developer productivity, AI-enabled automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Enhance developer productivity using AI and machine learning to streamline workflows and automate tasks
• Design, implement, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Build and maintain scalable internal developer platforms and tooling
• Drive infrastructure reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and on-call participation
• Partner with engineering teams to identify productivity bottlenecks and deliver tooling
• Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to technical standards and documentation
• Champion quality gates and change-management practices

Required qualifications

• Experience with common design patterns and designing large-scale, distributed, highly concurrent, highly loaded, and highly available systems
• Strong knowledge of server technologies to optimize service response and data queries
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale
• Track record of technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring across teams
• Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Aliyun
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Strong system design skills to define and own technical strategy

Nice to have

• Experience using AI/ML tools or integrating LLMs to improve developer workflows
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools such as Cursor or Copilot
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or the ELK stack
• Experience operating production infrastructure with strong incident response practices
• Experience moving quickly and growing in dynamic, collaborative, and ambiguous environments
• Experience in platform engineering or developer experience at a technology or fintech company
• A data-driven approach to measuring and improving developer productivity

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.