Global FX Engineering Leader

4 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Airwallex Full time
About Us

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. We empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide 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 people in tech located across more than 20 offices globally. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

Our Mission

We are creating the new generation of Foreign Exchange platforms for our customers. Operating in 150+ countries and over 60+ currencies, we help customers streamline payments worldwide with market-leading FX rates. Our mission is to streamline FX pricing & risk management capability and re-architect APIs and workflow engines powering our FX-enabled customer experience.

The Role

This high-impact role will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams across Airwallex. As the Financial Markets Engineering Manager/Director, you'll lead a high-performing engineering team and evolve our mission-critical Foreign Exchange and Liquidity platform. The team focuses on providing seamless global native capabilities across Airwallex's diverse product ecosystem, including card issuing, payments, and acquiring.

Your Responsibilities
  • You will design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with senior leaders.
  • Responsible for delivering and overall health of the Financial Markets engineering domain.
Your Skills and Qualifications
  • Solid platform domain knowledge.
  • 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.
  • Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with backend technologies, preferably Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot.
  • Evidence of working on high-volume distributed systems.
Benefits and Perks

Airwallex offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 - $250,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits and perks suitable for top talent.



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