# Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI **Company**: Airwallex **Location**: San Francisco, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $182K - $310K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/613cbcbf-18df-4f97-b17a-1a30821755d6?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_21c26faa-f0e ## Description ## Compensation - $182K – $310K • 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 T:0 is building an AI-native accounting platform that helps businesses close the books, reconcile, and report continuously. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design the systems that make intelligent financial workflows reliable, auditable, and ready to scale. - Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems that process high-volume, high-sensitivity financial data with strict correctness and latency guarantees. - Build typed, production-grade APIs and services in Python using FastAPI and Pydantic to power agentic workflows, AI copilots, and real-time financial infrastructure. - Own data architecture end to end, including schema design, event models, ledger primitives, and storage layers optimized for auditability, traceability, and scale. - Develop resilient infrastructure primitives,including queues, retries, idempotency, observability, and backpressure handling,that let teams ship quickly without sacrificing reliability. - Build feedback loops at the intersection of systems and AI, where product data continuously improves models and models improve system behavior. - Ship platform foundations, including internal frameworks, SDKs, and tooling that accelerate engineers across the organization. - Partner closely with ML and product teams to productionize research-grade ideas into customer-facing systems. - Define the architecture of an AI-native financial stack, designing software with AI as a first-class runtime rather than bolting AI onto existing systems. You'll work from our San Francisco office three days a week. ## What we're looking for ### Essentials - 8+ years of backend engineering experience, including substantial experience with Python at scale. - Deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database design. - Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices. - Familiarity with GCP services such as Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and KMS. - Strong understanding of security and compliance best practices. - Experience designing and operating reliable, production-grade backend systems. - A track record of owning complex technical problems end to end. - A strong interest in building the backend systems that power intelligent products. ### Preferred - Experience building agentic workflows, AI copilots, or AI-native products. - Experience with financial systems, ledgers, payments, accounting, or other high-integrity domains. - Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, SDKs, or developer tooling. - Experience partnering closely with ML and product teams to productionize research or prototypes. ## 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 hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching. Quality and accountability aren't external expectations, they're internal ones. - 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. - You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details. - You ask "why" before jumping to "how." - You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it. ## Skills ### Required - Python - SQL - NoSQL database design - distributed systems - event-driven architectures - microservices - GCP services - security and compliance best practices - FastAPI - Pydantic ### Nice to have - agentic workflows - AI copilots - AI-native products - financial systems - ledgers - payments - accounting - internal platforms - frameworks - SDKs - developer tooling --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/613cbcbf-18df-4f97-b17a-1a30821755d6?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)