Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

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.

This team is creating a new generation of Foreign Exchange and digital Banking platform. This year we plan to streamline our FX pricing & risk management capability and re-architect the APIs and workflow engines that power our FX enabled customer experience across payments, conversions and multi-currency card spend.

You will help us build functionality that provides seamless Global native capability across Airwallex’s diverse product ecosystem, including card issuing, payments and acquiring.

The Core Banking Engineering Manager is a high-impact role requiring close collaboration with product & engineering teams across the organization to maintain & evolve the mission-critical client ledger & financial transaction orchestration engine that powers Airwallex’s diverse product capabilities, including card issuing, payments, and foreign exchange.

2024 presents a unique greenfield opportunity to design and implement a more scalable domain boundary in the form of a next-generation transaction orchestration engine, which is expected to harmonize the movement of funds across our ecosystem and provide an elegant platform for sister domains to model more complicated fund settlement workflows examples of which include online card authorization, batch payment, fund investment, interest bearing & loan repayment workflows.

This role is based in Singapore.

• Provide technical leadership & direction to a team of engineers based in Singapore & Australia

• Design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with the organization's senior technical & business leaders

• Oversee the delivery & overall health of the Core Banking domain, including multiple squads covering core client ledger infrastructure, transaction orchestration capability & reporting solutions

• Develop and grow the team through effective mentoring and coaching

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 of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission-critical, distributed systems

• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers

• Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain

• Experience with backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Evidence of working on high-volume distributed systems. Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, Cloud Front, etc.) with docker and Kubernetes

• Hands‑on experience…