# Staff Software Engineer, Growth

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $163K - $279K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The expected base pay range for this role is $163K – $279K, with additional compensation including equity and bonus.

## How you'll make impact

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Growth Engineering team at Airwallex, you'll play a critical role in defining the technical architecture and building foundational systems that power Growth at scale.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Driving technical strategy and architecture for critical Growth Engineering platforms

- Building scalable backend infrastructure, including high-performance APIs and distributed services

- Developing AI-native platform capabilities for personalized experiences and automated workflows

- Designing for reliability and scale, with strong foundations for performance and security

- Translating ambiguous business challenges into technical solutions, partnering with multiple teams to deliver measurable outcomes

- Elevating engineering excellence through architectural leadership and technical mentorship

## What we're looking for

### Essentials

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience in backend development

- Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language

- Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture

- Proven Staff-level technical leadership, with a track record of driving complex engineering initiatives

- Strong ownership and execution skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver high-quality solutions

### Preferred

- Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, or data-intensive applications

- Experience building AI-powered applications or agentic workflows

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration technologies

- Experience with production observability and reliability tooling

## You'll thrive here if

- You have high agency and proactively identify high-impact opportunities

- You think in systems and build reusable platforms and abstractions

- You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented, balancing long-term architectural quality with speed of delivery

- You're comfortable with ambiguity and make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information

- You lead through influence and communicate clearly, challenging ideas constructively

- You balance autonomy with collaboration, knowing when to make decisions independently and when broader alignment is essential

- You thrive in a global environment, collaborating across distributed teams and time zones

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- Kotlin
- distributed systems
- backend architecture

### Nice to have
- growth platforms
- experimentation systems
- AI-powered applications
- cloud infrastructure
- containerization
- orchestration technologies

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