You’ll remain technically credible and engaged at an architectural level while focusing primarily on team health, execution, and long-term technical quality rather than acting as the primary individual contributor. You’ll partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to improve reliability, observability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency across the platform.
Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams.
Build a strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems.
Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities.
Guide pragmatic technology and platform decisions that balance innovation, stability, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.
This is an in-office role — you’ll be in our Singapore office five days a week.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Essentials
12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems.
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles.
Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy.
Preferred
Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains.
Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot.
Prior experience leading teams responsible for high-availability, low-latency systems.
YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF
You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
You hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching. Quality and accountability aren't external expectations, they're internal ones.
You can advocate hard for a position, then fully support the team's direction once a call is made.
LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR TEAM
The Issuing Platform team at Airwallex own the core systems behind our issuing products: card lifecycle management, high-throughput transaction processing, and the clearance, settlement, and dispute workflows that keep money and data moving accurately. The tension is balancing low-latency, always-on processing with rigorous compliance, resilience, and financial accuracy. You'll thrive here if you're drawn to deep ownership and high-stakes systems, hard operational problems, and think carefully about edge cases and failure modes. If you want to build the infrastructure that makes card issuing reliable and scalable at Airwallex, this is the team at the center of that work.
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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.
