# Engineering Lead, Scale

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role

As an Engineering Lead, Scale, you'll lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex's embedded finance products. You'll manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality, while staying technically credible and involved at an architectural level.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design.

- Drive high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.

- Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity across the team.

- Partner with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities.

- Translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.

- Coach and grow engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development.

## Requirements

### Essentials

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1+ years in a people leadership role.

- Strong backend development experience with an object-oriented programming language.

- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed production systems.

- Strong system design and object-oriented design fundamentals.

- Ability to balance abstraction, simplicity, and speed in technical decision-making.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution.

### Preferred

- Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains.

- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture.

- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

- Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer-facing platforms.

- Exposure to cross-region deployment, data residency, or customer-facing technical architecture.

## Team Information

The Scale team builds the infrastructure that lets platforms embed Airwallex financial products at speed and with confidence. The team owns multi-tenant systems powering companies like Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN.

## Skills

### Required
- backend development
- system design
- object-oriented design
- large-scale distributed systems
- leadership

### Nice to have
- fintech
- payments
- multi-tenant SaaS
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- cloud platforms
- API design
- OAuth 2.0

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