Global Financial Markets Engineering Director

2 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Airwallex Full time
About Airwallex

Airwallex is a pioneering unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 100,000 companies worldwide with integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management, and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 innovative people located across more than 20 offices globally. Valued at US$5.6 billion, backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the future of global payments and financial platforms.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Financial Markets Engineering Director to lead our high-performing engineering teams and evolve our mission-critical Foreign Exchange and Liquidity platform as we continue to grow. This senior role will include both technical and people leadership responsibilities, requiring you to design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with our senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering to deliver seamless global native capability across our diverse product ecosystem.
  • Evolving our Foreign Exchange and Liquidity platform in continued growth as our core product.
  • Design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with the organization's senior leaders.
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.
  • 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.
Location

This role can be performed from Melbourne, Australia OR Singapore.

Estimated Salary: $170,000 - $250,000 per annum (dependent on location and experience)

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