Strategic Financial Markets Engineering Lead

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Airwallex Full time
About Airwallex

We are a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 100,000 companies worldwide with integrated solutions to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, and treasury at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of 1,500+ innovators across 20+ offices globally, valued at $5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors.

Job Overview

This high-impact role will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to lead a high-performing engineering team and evolve our mission-critical Foreign Exchange and Liquidity platform in continued growth as our core product.

You will be responsible for delivering and maintaining the overall health of the Financial Markets engineering domain, requiring both people and technical leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Lead a high-performing engineering team, focusing on providing seamless global native capability across Airwallex's diverse product ecosystem.
  2. Design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with senior leaders, driving both delivery and overall domain health.
Requirements
  • 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, with hands-on experience with event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with backend technologies, including Java or Kotlin, Spring/Spring Boot.
  • Evidence of working on high-volume distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes.
  • Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.
  • Financial Markets, FX, or Payments domain knowledge.
Estimated Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 per annum (depending on location and experience)

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