Description
Compensation
- $180K – $275K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable national, federal, state, and local law.
These expected base pay ranges are based on information at the time this post was generated and represent the company’s good faith minimum and maximum ranges for this role at the time of posting.
The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors.
Certain roles may be eligible for other compensation including, but not limited to, annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, or other forms of compensation in addition to the established salary range.
Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements. All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many of our locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.
For example, for US-based employees, they are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.
Further details about our compensation and benefits package are available upon request by contacting our Talent Acquisition team.
How you'll make impact
Airwallex’s global engineering organization relies on strong developer platforms to move quickly, ship high-quality software, and operate efficiently. You’ll lead the technical strategy and delivery of the productivity systems that make that possible.
- Lead the technical strategy and delivery of developer productivity platforms that help Airwallex’s global engineering organization move faster, ship higher-quality software, and operate more efficiently.
- Identify productivity bottlenecks with feature teams, then design and build scalable solutions across developer tooling, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, messaging, and workflow automation.
- Define and drive an AI-powered developer productivity strategy, evaluating and deploying solutions such as AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent build optimization, and agent-based root-cause analysis.
- Set the technical bar across the Infrastructure & Productivity domain by shaping architecture, reviewing RFCs, establishing engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
- Partner with engineers, SREs, and stakeholders across Airwallex to measure and improve developer experience through signals such as build times, deployment frequency, deployment reliability, and developer satisfaction.
You'll work from our Seattle office three days a week.
What we're looking for
Essentials
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.
- Strong proficiency in a backend programming language such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js, along with experience using the relevant frameworks.
- Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems with high concurrency, high load, and high availability requirements.
- Strong system design skills and experience defining technical strategy for a team or domain, including architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Aliyun, and infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience providing technical leadership across teams, making architectural decisions, reviewing designs or RFCs, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering quality standards.
- Experience with server technologies and the ability to optimise service response and data queries while addressing high-concurrency and high-availability challenges.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand workflows, identify productivity needs, and deliver reliable platform solutions.
Preferred
- Experience using AI, machine learning, or LLM integrations to improve developer workflows, automate code review, generate tests, or accelerate engineering productivity.
- Familiarity with AI-powered development tools such as Cursor or Copilot, and a perspective on how AI will transform developer productivity engineering.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or the ELK stack.
- Experience operating production infrastructure with strong incident-response practices.
- Solid understanding of messaging systems such as Kafka, data streaming, container orchestration, and microservices architecture.
- Experience in platform engineering or developer experience at a technology or fintech company.
- A data-driven approach to measuring and improving developer productivity, including build times, deployment frequency, DORA metrics, or developer NPS.
- Experience with build systems such as Bazel or Gradle, or internal developer portals.
- A track record of moving quickly and developing solutions in dynamic, collaborative, and ambiguous environments while working with diverse decision-makers.
You'll thrive here if
- You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
- You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it.
- You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect.
- You know when to align and when to just decide. Collaboration isn't a way to avoid accountability.