Senior Backend Engineer, Issuing Transactions

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

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.

The Issuing Transactions team manages the critical card payment processing services to enable Airwallex customers to make cross-border payment to millions of suppliers worldwide in over 140 currencies, empowered by Airwallex multi-currency wallet and competitive foreign exchange rates.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help define and implement our team’s technical strategy to meet an evolving set of product and engineering challenges. You will take ownership of projects from conception to delivery, leading the building of APIs, workflows and data pipelines to serve our ever expanding product needs.

Our team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges, paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps. The position is a high-impact, collaborative role responsible for driving outcomes across the wider product & engineering organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritise projects and ship incrementally to production. 

• Build high available low latency distributed systems with public cloud infrastructure.

• Support the engineering team on architecture evolution, quality improvement and engineering risk mitigation.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and delightful user experience.

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:

• Mastery of backend technologies. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin with SpringBoot

• Previously worked with automated tests and been involved in quality control processes

• Engaged with cloud technologies such as GCP & AWS

• API design best practices

• Experience solving distributed systems challenges - scalability, consistency, latency

• Experience engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with high throughput / low latency / HA distributed systems

• Exposure to technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiar with HTTP, TCP / IP protocol and REST specifications

• Mastery of Gradle / Maven or other build tools

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

• An interest in the financial domain

• Experience with payment processor, card scheme network, or fintech industry

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.