Senior Software Engineer, Issuing Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Issuing Platform

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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 150,000 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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe.

Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

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.

About The Team
Our Issuing engineering team takes ownership of the technical construction of key Airwallex systems.

These systems span several products including B2B wallets, payment acceptance, credit card issuing, treasury management, FX and this list continues to expand.

What You’ll Do
As a staff software engineer, you will lead building the most technical elements of our payments network.

While you do not have direct reports, you will be expected to demonstrate leadership through the quality of your engineering work.

Responsibilities

• You are a leader – striving for technical excellence through your coding and system design
• You are committed – you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do
• You know API’s – from designing to building REST APIs
• You are a team player– fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across regions
• You are a thought leader - Attracting other senior hires to the company through your knowledge sharing
• You are a passionate problem solver – weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team

Who You Are
We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or engineering related majors.
  
  
• 5+ years experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration/delivery and quality engineering.
  
  
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
  
  
• Evidence of working on high volume distributed systems.
  
  
• Hands on experience with event driven architectures.
  
  
• Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS with docker and Kubernetes.
  
  
• Observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.
  
  

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.