Engineering Lead, Cards (Relocation to Sydney, Australia)

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 100,000 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across 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 team

Airwallex is establishing a state-of-the-art lending platform and building a suite of related credit products which include customer facing credit cards.

The Cards team are revolutionizing the way businesses issue credit cards and manage expenses for their employees. This team solves complex challenges around the growing demands of data and feature complexity in credit cards and expenses, and they work at the exciting intersection of our backend infrastructure and customer facing applications, working on distributed systems that manage millions of transactions.

What you’ll do

As a Engineering Lead at Airwallex you'll be in a high-impact role that collaborates with Product & Engineering teams across the organisation, managing a full stack product focused team.

The role includes both people & technical responsibilities, and you'll be responsible for both the product delivery & overall health of the Engineering Team. This role will suit someone who is in a hands-on Lead or Engineering Manager role, and who has both back-end and front-end development experience.

This role will require a relocation to Sydney, Australia.

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline

• A solid understanding of back end and front end development and best practice

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on low latency, distributed systems

• Experience managing and mentoring a team of engineers

• Experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot

• Strong problem-solving mindset, comfortable working with customers, partners, and the Airwallex Engineering team to develop new products and solutions

• Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision-makers and build credibility at all levels

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.