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.