Engineering Manager, Core Banking (Relocate to Singapore)

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

This team is creating a new generation of Foreign Exchange and digital Banking platform. This year we plan to streamline our FX pricing & risk management capability and re-architect the APIs and workflow engines that power our FX enabled customer experience across payments, conversions and multi-currency card spend.You will help us build functionality that provides seamless Global native capability across Airwallex’s diverse product ecosystem, including card issuing, payments and acquiring.

What you’ll do

The Core Banking Engineering Manager is a high-impact role requiring close collaboration with product & engineering teams across the organization to maintain & evolve the mission-critical client ledger & financial transaction orchestration engine that powers Airwallex’s diverse product capabilities, including card issuing, payments, and foreign exchange.

2024 presents a unique greenfield opportunity to design and implement a more scalable domain boundary in the form of a next-generation transaction orchestration engine, which is expected to harmonize the movement of funds across our ecosystem and provide an elegant platform for sister domains to model more complicated fund settlement workflows examples of which include online card authorization, batch payment, fund investment, interest bearing & loan repayment workflows.

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership & direction to a team of engineers based in Singapore & Australia

• Design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with the organization's senior technical & business leaders

• Oversee the delivery & overall health of the Core Banking domain, including multiple squads covering core client ledger infrastructure, transaction orchestration capability & reporting solutions

• Develop and grow the team through effective mentoring and coaching

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission-critical, distributed systems

• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers

• Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain

• Experience with backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Evidence of working on high-volume distributed systems. Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with docker and Kubernetes

• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures

• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes

• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana
  

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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.