About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

About the Team

The Global Treasury and Payment Network (GTPN) team sits at the core of Airwallex's payment infrastructure. As Airwallex's very first product and still the largest revenue driver across the company, GTPN underpins many of our most critical customer experiences. We operate at the intersection of traditional and modern finance, expanding the reach of our global treasury and payment network, strengthening its capabilities and reliability, and delivering innovative payment products built on a robust financial foundation.

GTPN is a truly global, cross-site engineering organization, with talented engineers in existing and emerging hubs such as the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. As we continue to scale worldwide, we're looking for passionate Senior Software Engineers to join us. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across regions to build and enhance products that not only meet but exceed our customers' expectations.

What You'll Do:

• Lead with Inspiration & Purpose: You will oversee the strategy, architecture, development, and operation of Airwallex's GTPN team to remain at the vanguard of developing cutting-edge financial solutions.

• Collaborate and Create: Work alongside a team of talented engineers, product managers, and designers to bring our finance products from concept to launch. Your input will be crucial in shaping the future of finance.

• Understand and Empathize: Dive deep into our customers' needs and challenges. Your good product sense will enable you to design and implement solutions that truly resonate with our users.

• Measure and Optimize: Leverage data to drive decisions. Your keen data sense will help you measure the success of our products and identify opportunities for optimization and growth.

Who you are

We are looking for senior engineers with deep technical expertise and a strong track record of impact as a tech lead.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in system architecturing and software development, with great modern engineering practices focused on continuous innovation and high-quality engineering.

• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or software engineering related majors.

• Strong backend development experience using Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.

• User-centric approach to product development, leveraging deep empathy for customer needs to build intuitive and high-impact backend systems.

• Analytical and data-driven mindset, using metrics to inform technical decision-making and optimize product performance.

• Proactive ownership of end-to-end projects, demonstrating the initiative to lead technical initiatives to successful outcomes.

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.