Senior Backend Engineer, Lending

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 Senior Backend Engineer is a high-impact, high-ownership role working on the leading edge of our lending product suite to launch and scale up our embedded finance & credit product capabilities into new markets. The Lending engineering & product team is based in Singapore and has full global ownership. This role requires close collaboration with the local team to lead the evolution and innovation of our exciting new credit suite.

Join Airwallex and become an integral part of a team that is redefining the boundaries of financial innovation. Airwallex offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where you can cultivate your knowledge, foster personal growth, and realize your full potential

What you’ll do

Your contributions will directly impact the success of our products and make a lasting mark on the industry. Seize this opportunity to join our dynamic team and become a part of our journey to create extraordinary technology that empowers users worldwide!

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation & delivery across our lending platform to support the launch and scale up our embedded finance & credit cards products.

• Collaborate with a talented team of engineers to conduct architectural reviews, ensuring the highest quality and scalability of our solutions.

• Partner with the broader lending team to optimize our processes for productivity & quality.

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:

• 4+ years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.

• A commitment to producing high quality and well tested solutions

• Strong computer science fundamentals

• JVM based programming. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin

• Deep experience working with high throughput / low latency / HA distributed systems

• Experience in API design best practices

• Solid understanding of OOP concepts.

• Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience within the financial domain.
  

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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.

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