Engineering Manager, Risk

Location

US - San Francisco

Full time

Hybrid

Engineering Risk Platform

• $300 – $450
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus

Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

These expected base pay ranges are based on information at the time this post was generated and represent the company’s good faith minimum and maximum ranges for this role at the time of posting.

The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors.

Certain roles may be eligible for other compensation including, but not limited to, annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, or other forms of compensation in addition to the established salary range.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and work location. US-based employees are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.

Further details about our compensation and benefits package are available upon request by contacting our Talent Acquisition team.

As an Engineering Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of real‑time detection systems and client‑facing fraud management products that protect customers and revenue at global scale. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you will shape architecture and execution while developing managers and senior engineers to do the best work of their careers.

• Provide strategic leadership for a mission‑critical fraud and risk platform, aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Work with PM, Design, Ops, Commercial and Strategy teams to shape the future of our fraud management products.

• Build and scale a high‑performing engineering organization (including managers and senior ICs): set goals, establish career paths, run performance and compensation processes, and cultivate a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.
• Partner closely with PM to define the roadmap, prioritize a measurable backlog, and deliver outcomes that improve detection rates, reduce false positives, and minimize chargebacks.
• Serve as the accountable owner for architecture and system quality across services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency for real‑time decisioning under high load.
• Remain hands‑on where it matters: guide designs, review critical code and APIs, and de‑risk complex initiatives with pragmatic technical deep dives.
• Drive design and code quality: institute standards, reviews, and automated checks that raise the bar without slowing teams down.
• Ensure cross‑team collaboration with platform, data, SRE, security, and global engineering teams; remove blockers and foster clear interfaces, SLAs, and ownership.
• Own operational excellence: on‑call readiness, incident response, postmortems, observability, capacity planning, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Lead talent strategy: recruit, onboard, and develop engineers and managers; build diverse teams and succession plans for sustained velocity.

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

• 8+ years in back‑end engineering with 2+ years in engineering management, including ownership of complex, distributed systems in production.
• Risk management or Fintech product engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in Java, including multi‑threading, high‑concurrency patterns, I/O/NIO, and network programming.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and high‑availability, high‑throughput architectures (caching, partitioning, consistency models, and resiliency patterns).
• Proficiency with Spring / Spring Boot, HTTP, TCP/IP,…