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