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.