# Engineering Lead / Manager, KYC (Relocation to Singapore)

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: AU - Sydney; AU - Melbourne
**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 / Manager, KYC at Airwallex, you will lead the engineering direction for KYC systems that make user onboarding safer, faster, and more efficient at scale.

## Key Responsibilities

- Build and improve automation and workflow systems that streamline registration approval and reduce manual effort for internal operations teams.

- Develop AI- and data-driven solutions to identify user risk and help prevent fraudulent or malicious activity.

- Partner closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver effective technical solutions.

- Raise the bar on architecture, reliability, performance, and engineering quality while mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers on the team.

## Requirements

### Essentials

- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

- 5+ years of software engineering experience.

- Strong ability to understand complex business processes quickly and translate them into effective technical solutions.

- Strong organisational and communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and stakeholder groups.

- Solid software engineering skills, with experience in backend or frontend development using Kotlin, Java, React, or TypeScript.

- Hands-on experience building scalable, robust automation or workflow systems.

- A self-driven and proactive approach to identifying problems and driving improvements.

- Experience contributing to architectural discussions, code reviews, system reliability, performance, and scalability.

- The ability to mentor or guide engineers and act as a technical role model as the team grows.

### Preferred

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, ideally as a team lead or project lead.

- Experience applying AI or machine learning to real-world problems, particularly automation or risk detection.

- Familiarity with automation and workflow tools in cloud environments, such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience working in fintech, payments, or a fast-growing technology environment.

- Familiarity with compliance, risk control, or user onboarding domains.

## Team Information

The Risk Platform team builds the decisioning infrastructure that protects 150,000+ businesses moving over US$260 billion a year across 200+ countries and 90+ currencies. The team uses streaming pipelines, graph databases, ML models, and LLM agents to tackle adversarial systems problems.

## Benefits and Culture

- Work from the Singapore office five days a week.

- Collaborate with a global team across multiple countries and time zones.

- Value in-person collaboration and simplify complexity.

## Equal Opportunity

Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer, valuing diversity and considering candidates based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- React
- TypeScript
- software engineering
- automation
- workflow systems
- AI
- data-driven solutions
- architectural discussions
- code reviews

### Nice to have
- machine learning
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- fintech
- payments
- compliance
- risk control
- user onboarding

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