Engineering Director, Payments Platform at Airwallex | England, GB | Rezi

Engineering Director, Payments Platform at Airwallex

Engineering Director, Payments Platform

Airwallex · England, GB

1 months ago

Engineering Director, Payments Platform

Airwallex · England, GB

a month ago
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About the Role

As an Engineering Director, you will lead the teams responsible for building and operating critical components of the Payments Platform. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the Payments Platform vision, owning the end-to-end strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Airwallex's Payments Platform.
  • Lead and grow a world-class engineering organization, managing, coaching, and developing Engineering Managers and senior technical talent.
  • Drive technical architecture and platform excellence, providing architectural direction for high-volume, mission-critical payment systems.
  • Deliver with speed and operational rigor, setting clear OKRs and managing execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align technology with business outcomes, partnering closely with Product, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, and regional engineering leaders.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience in people management, including managing Engineering Managers or Engineering Leads.
  • Strong product thinking and the ability to partner closely with Product Management.
  • Deep technical fluency in software architecture and system design, with experience guiding architectural decisions for large-scale, complex distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to operate in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or a similarly regulated industry.

Skills

  • Payments processing
  • Routing
  • Settlement
  • Reconciliation
  • Partner integrations
  • Software architecture
  • System design
  • People management
  • Product strategy
  • Agile methodologies

Location

  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom
  • San Francisco, United States

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior Leadership
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience

About the Company

  • Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses.
  • Powered by proprietary infrastructure and software, Airwallex empowers over 250,000 businesses worldwide.
  • Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex has a team of over 2,300 people across 27 offices globally.
  • Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors.
  • Airwallex is building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

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.