# Staff Software Engineer, Cards

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/1711508a-927f-48c2-b3ef-0a79ccd0299d?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cards team at Airwallex, you will lead the architecture and development of complex backend systems that support our card products. You will drive cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape the long-term engineering strategy to ensure scalability, security, and reliability at a global scale.

## Responsibilities

- Drive the architecture, design, and evolution of complex backend systems that support the Cards product.

- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and ensure alignment with long-term engineering goals.

- Own the full lifecycle of backend services,from idea to design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

- Guide teams in making scalable, secure, and high-performing system design decisions.

- Establish engineering best practices around observability, testing, and API design.

- Mentor and support the growth of engineers across the team.

- Collaborate closely with product, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable and impactful solutions.

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience in technical leadership roles.

- Proven experience architecting and scaling backend systems and APIs in production.

- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

- Expertise in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python).

- Deep understanding of REST API design and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).

- Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

- Strong commitment to code quality, reliability, and performance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading cross-team initiatives and influencing technical direction at a system-wide level.

- Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).

- Familiarity with security and compliance considerations in the financial services domain.

- A passion for mentoring and helping others grow.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Go
- Python
- REST API design
- Spring Boot
- cloud infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- distributed systems
- data structures
- algorithms

### Nice to have
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Splunk
- security and compliance

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