Senior Backend Developer for High-Performance Payment Systems

3 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Airwallex Full time

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the leading unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 100,000 companies 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 innovative individuals located across more than 20 offices globally. 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 revolutionizing the global payments and financial landscape.

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.

The Issuing Transactions team plays a critical role in managing card payment processing services, enabling Airwallex customers to make cross-border payments to millions of suppliers worldwide in over 140 currencies, facilitated by our multi-currency wallet and competitive foreign exchange rates.

Job Description:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help shape and implement our team's technical strategy to meet evolving product and engineering challenges. You will take ownership of projects from conception to delivery, leading the development of high-available APIs, workflows, and data pipelines to serve our expanding product needs.

  • Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define product roadmaps, prioritize projects, and ship incrementally to production.
  • Design and build low-latency distributed systems using public cloud infrastructure.
  • Support the engineering team on architecture evolution, quality improvement, and risk mitigation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and user experience.
Requirements:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in backend technologies, automated testing, and quality control processes. Experience with cloud technologies such as GCP and AWS is essential, as well as API design best practices and solving distributed systems challenges.

  • Mastery of Kotlin with Spring Boot.
  • Experience with automated tests and quality control processes.
  • Engagement with cloud technologies such as GCP and AWS.
  • API design best practices.
  • Experience solving distributed systems challenges - scalability, consistency, latency.
  • Experience engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams.
Estimated Salary:

$120,000 - $180,000 per annum, depending on location and experience.



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