2025/26 Software Engineering Intern Program

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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

About the Airwallex Intern Program

• Gain hands-on experience through owning your own project end to end

• Benefit from personal mentorship by industry leading technologists

• Rare software engineering intern experience where you’re on the tools

• Join a cohort experience that fosters knowledge sharing, networking and soft skill development

• Airwallex’s early careers programs are recognised in Australia’s Top Graduate Employers list

• Many of our Interns receive an Airwallex Graduate role at intern program completion

About the team

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders. 

What You'll Do:

As an intern, you will be given an exciting and challenging project that you'll start in week 1. You'll join our structured Intern Program, be set up with a mentor and manager to make sure you have the best experience and that you are encouraged and supported to contribute. Most importantly, we want you to feel part of the team and learn lots while you are working with us!

Our leaders welcome all Airwallex people to contribute to our roadmap and to constantly challenge the processes that we build our platforms through. You'll get the opportunity to learn and apply best-practice software engineering, focusing on strong software engineering fundamentals and pragmatism from our engineers. 

We have ambitious goals, cutting edge technology and multiple opportunities to come in and start delivering simple and effective engineering led solutions to our customers. Our tech stack (Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes and React) is built to be flexible, architecturally designed to be scalable and event driven at its core. 

Intern Program structure

• 12 weeks over the Australian University summer break (start late Nov to mid-Feb)

• 1st week in a structured induction

• 3 Program Review / Check-Ins across the 12 week program

• 1 Intern scoped Project to own end to end

• 1 Project Showcase to present back to our Teams on what you built

• Melbourne or Sydney office location

At Airwallex we like to ensure we create the best environment for our people providing a collaborative open office space, PlayStation and table tennis to unwind, a fully stocked kitchen which includes breakfast, snacks, fruit, beers, you name it! We also organise regular team building events, encourage flexible/hybrid working and offer learning and development opportunities. Most importantly, we give our people the freedom to be creative. 

Our internship program is full time hours over the 12 week program with at least 3 days a week required in the office however, we usually see our Interns maximise their time in the office learning from their Engineering colleagues.

Eligibility requirements

• Open to international students (please provide current VEVO letter)

• Penultimate year or Final year of a Bachelor's or Master's degree, at any stage in your PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. 

• Computing and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Fundamentals

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Desire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist

Application and Assessment process

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with application status changes and outcomes communicated as soon as decisions are finalised. Your patience during this process is highly appreciated. 

• Application submission including your current resume and academic transcript.

• Online technical assessment.

• Talent screen 

• Live Code Interview

• Hiring Manager interview

Requirements: Please provide us with the latest PDF copies of your transcript and CV outlining when you finish your studies when applying

About You:  

• You can think on your feet -  with knowledge of building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.

• You are a team player– you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first environment.

• You are naturally curious– always asking why to better understand our customer needs.

• You are a passionate problem solver  – You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem

Applications close at 12pm Monday 5th May 2025 AEST.

Life at Airwallex as an Intern:

💸We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards  

💻 Two epic working spaces in the heart of Melbourne and Sydney

💳 Your own Airwallex Virtual Card, with $300 per quarter to spend on physical, lifestyle, health, or charitable donations

🥗On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams

🧘Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions 

🎂 Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU 

💵Paid community and volunteer leave 

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.

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.