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About the Role
As an Engineering Lead, you'll lead a team to design, build, and scale platforms and experiences powering Growth at Airwallex. You will combine technical leadership, hands-on problem-solving, and strong execution to turn growth opportunities into reliable products and measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering execution, owning the delivery of complex Growth initiatives from technical planning and architecture through implementation, launch, and continuous improvement.
- Drive technical direction, guiding the design of scalable backend services, frontend applications, event-driven systems, and AI-native platform capabilities that enable experimentation, personalization, and growth automation.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering team, providing technical mentorship, coaching, clear expectations, and a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
- Partner across functions, working closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, and other engineering teams to translate ambiguous business problems into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions.
- Drive measurable business outcomes, leveraging experimentation, customer insights, and data to prioritize high-impact opportunities, accelerate iteration, and improve growth performance.
- Raise the engineering bar, establishing strong practices for system design, code quality, performance, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams or complex technical initiatives.
- Proven technical leadership and execution skills, with a track record of leading complex engineering projects, making sound architectural decisions, managing technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-quality solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers, through mentorship, technical guidance, effective delegation, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Strong ownership, product judgment, and cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, prioritize effectively, and translate business objectives into measurable engineering outcomes.
- Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or product-led growth experiences.
- Experience developing AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, or Revenue Operations.
- Experience establishing engineering processes, improving delivery predictability, and scaling team execution in fast-moving environments.
- Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments.
Skills
- Python
- Java/Kotlin
- React
- TypeScript
- AWS
- GCP
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
About the Company
- Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy.
- More than 675,000 businesses use Airwallex to run financial operations or build and monetize financial products.
- Started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on.
- A regulated backbone behind global payments with 85+ licenses and financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
- Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices.
- Hires builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles.
Equal Opportunity
- Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Values diversity and anyone seeking employment is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.
- Does not 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 hiring decisions.
- Provides accommodation for individuals with disabilities or special needs.