Software Engineer, Spend

The role

You will design and build backend services for the Spend and Accounting workflows of a global financial platform. You will own features from technical design to production operation and help shape long-term backend architecture.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, secure backend services for Spend and Accounting workflows.
• Shape long-term architecture of backend systems.
• Deliver features from technical design and implementation to production operation.
• Improve system reliability, maintainability and observability.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure and Engineering teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical mentorship and code quality.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and building backend systems and APIs in production.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Java, Kotlin, Go or Python.
• Solid understanding of REST API design and backend frameworks, such as Spring Boot.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or GCP, and container orchestration, such as Kubernetes.
• A strong focus on performance, reliability, and code quality.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus or Splunk.

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 globally.