# Staff Software Engineer, Risk

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $200 – $330
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

Airwallex offers a competitive salary range of $200 – $330, with a 15% – 30% bonus structure.

## How you'll make impact

As a Staff Software Engineer, Risk, you will build risk capabilities across payment products and transaction systems, working with graph technologies, machine learning, and LLMs. Your responsibilities include:

- Designing and developing highly available, high-concurrency components within the microservice architecture using Java or Kotlin.

- Improving fraud detection, risk decisioning, and alert triage through graph technologies, machine learning, and LLMs.

- Partnering with senior technical leaders and globally distributed teams to strengthen the approach to risk management.

- Experimenting with new technologies and turning architectural improvements into stronger, more scalable systems.

- Mentoring less-experienced engineers and promoting strong software practices.

## What we're looking for

### Essentials

- 8+ years of core Java development experience and 5+ years building internet applications, large-scale financial systems, or e-commerce platforms.

- 3+ years of experience developing risk or payment platforms.

- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

- Strong proficiency in Java, including multithreading, high concurrency, I/O or NIO, and network communication.

- Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed, high-concurrency, high-load, and highly available systems.

- Strong knowledge of server technologies and experience optimizing service response, data queries, service quality, concurrency, and availability.

- Experience with Spring or Spring Boot and RESTful services.

- Experience with Gradle, Maven, or other build tools.

- Familiarity with JSON and XML.

- Experience working effectively with senior technical stakeholders and mentoring less-experienced engineers.

### Preferred

- In-depth knowledge of risk management strategies and fraud detection techniques, particularly in financial services or fintech.

- Familiarity with graph databases and using them for pattern and anomaly detection.

- Experience with machine learning models and frameworks for predictive risk analytics.

- Experience with real-time data-streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka or Flink.

- Strong data analytics skills, including experience with ClickHouse, Spark, or NoSQL databases for large-scale data processing and risk analysis.

- Experience with incident response and risk mitigation planning.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

## Benefits

Airwallex provides various benefits, including:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for US-based employees.

- A 401(k) plan.

- Short-term and long-term disability.

- Basic life insurance.

- Well-being benefits.

- 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays for US-based employees.

## Learn more about your team

The Risk Platform team builds the decisioning infrastructure that protects 150,000+ businesses moving over $260 billion a year across 150+ countries and 60+ currencies.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring
- RESTful services
- Gradle
- Maven
- JSON
- XML
- graph technologies
- machine learning
- LLMs

### Nice to have
- risk management strategies
- fraud detection techniques
- graph databases
- Apache Kafka
- Flink
- ClickHouse
- Spark
- NoSQL databases

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