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.