Senior Software Engineer, Productivity

Compensation

• $158K – $245K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable national, federal, state, and local law.

These expected base pay ranges are based on information at the time this post was generated and represent the company’s good faith minimum and maximum ranges for this role at the time of posting.

The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors.

Certain roles may be eligible for other compensation including, but not limited to, annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, or other forms of compensation in addition to the established salary range.

Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements. All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many of our locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.

For example, for US-based employees, they are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.

Further details about our compensation and benefits package are available upon request by contacting our Talent Acquisition team.

How you'll make impact

Our Infrastructure & Productivity team builds the platforms that help Airwallex engineers move faster, ship higher-quality software, and operate reliably. You'll work across developer productivity, AI-enabled automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure to improve how engineering teams build and deliver software.

• Enhance developer productivity by using AI and machine learning to streamline developer workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve code quality across the engineering organization.

• Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to increase software delivery efficiency, reduce build times, and improve deployment frequency.

• Build and maintain scalable internal developer platforms and tooling, including messaging platforms, observability systems, and workflow automation tools used by engineering teams across Airwallex.

• Drive infrastructure reliability and operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, incident management, on-call participation, and postmortems for P1/P2 incidents.

• Partner with engineering teams across Airwallex to identify productivity bottlenecks, understand their needs, and deliver tooling that improves the developer experience.

• Write clean, well-tested code, contribute to technical standards and documentation, and champion quality gates and change-management practices.

You'll work from our Seattle office three days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• Experience with common design patterns and designing and developing large-scale, distributed, highly concurrent, highly loaded, and highly available systems.

• Strong knowledge of server technologies, including the ability to optimize service response and data queries while solving for high concurrency and high availability.

• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js and their corresponding frameworks.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.

• A track record of technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring across teams.

• Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Aliyun, and infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Strong system design skills, with the ability to define and own the technical strategy for a team or domain while balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.

• Experience reviewing RFCs and providing deep insights on high-quality system designs.

Preferred

• Experience using AI/ML tools or integrating LLMs to improve developer workflows, automate code review, or accelerate engineering productivity.

• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools such as Cursor or Copilot.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or the ELK stack.

• Experience operating production infrastructure with strong incident response practices.

• Experience moving quickly and growing in dynamic, collaborative, and ambiguous environments, including proposing solutions across diverse groups of decision-makers.

• Experience in platform engineering or developer experience at a technology or fintech company.

• A data-driven approach to measuring and improving developer productivity, such as tracking build times, deployment frequency, or developer NPS.

You'll thrive here if

• You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.

• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.

• You’re comfortable with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it.

• You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work.

• You value in-person collaboration and are happy being in the office three days a week.

• You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect.

• You know when to align and when to just decide. Collaboration isn't a way to avoid accountability.

• You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.