Senior Frontend Engineer, Cards

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

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

The Cards team are revolutionizing the way businesses issue credit cards and manage expenses for their employees. This team solves complex challenges around the growing demands of data and feature complexity in credit cards and expenses, and they work at the exciting intersection of our backend infrastructure and customer facing applications, working on distributed systems that manage millions of transactions.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will help define and implement our team's technical strategy to meet an evolving set of product and engineering challenges. Our team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges, paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps.

Responsibilities

1. Delivering complex frontend features with React and TypeScript, including requirements breakdown, time estimation, and active participation in team planning and discussions.
2. Build micro FE web applications with domain-based design architecture.
3. Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritise projects and ship incrementally to production.
4. Leverage Apollo GraphQL as the backend for frontend (BFF) to build scalable and high-performance node services with simple and contact-based integration with backend.
5. Cooperate with the design team to build a design system with common components.
6. Actively engage with our Frontend Guild, research cutting edge technologies, and drive initiatives to build high-quality products and clean up technical debt.
7. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and a delightful user experience.

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:

1. Mastery of modern frontend web technologies.
2. Have a strong customer oriented mindset with a track record of product thinking.
3. Have a strong aptitude for system thinking, writing high-quality code and documentation.
4. Have a demonstrated history of using a wide range of appropriate testing practices.

Enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of individuals, bridging gaps between different teams and areas of expertise.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Expertise in the Typescript and React ecosystem.
2. Experience with building micro-frontends and designing modular, scalable frontend architectures using domain-based design to support product growth and complexity.
3. An interest in the financial domain.
4. Java, Kotlin, Shell development experience.
5. Familiarity with payment processing, accounting systems, vendor invoicing, or similar fintech products, with an understanding of the domain's technical and business needs.

Life at Airwallex:

We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards.

We share our business success through every employee receiving equity.

Two epic working spaces in the heart of Melbourne and Sydney.

On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams.

Your own Airwallex Virtual Card, with $1000 per year to spend on physical, lifestyle, health, or charitable donations.

Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions.

Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU.

Generous parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leaves.

Paid community and volunteer leave.

Generous Employee Referral Program rewards for referring top talent.

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.