# Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role

The Engineering Manager, Financial Platform role leads a team delivering reliable, scalable services that manage real-time balances, account for every transaction, and execute global settlements with precision.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, creating a supportive, high-performance environment.

- Drive the delivery of complex engineering projects from design through production, balancing quality, timelines, and business objectives.

- Partner with Finance and product teams to translate accounting requirements into robust technical solutions.

- Provide technical direction on backend engineering practices, system architecture, security, scalability, and data integrity.

- Improve engineering processes and delivery outcomes through data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

- Strengthen collaboration between Engineering and Finance by communicating technical and financial concepts clearly to varied audiences.

- Deliver secure, compliant, and resilient financial systems that support Airwallex’s customers and internal stakeholders.

## Requirements

### Essentials

- Experience leading and mentoring a team of software engineers in a high-performance environment.

- Strong backend engineering experience, with proficiency in a language such as Java or Kotlin.

- Experience planning and delivering complex engineering projects from design through production.

- A track record of partnering effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, including Finance, Product, and Engineering.

- A solid understanding of software architecture, scalability, security, and data integrity.

- Experience making decisions with data and improving engineering processes, reliability, and delivery outcomes.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts and financial or accounting requirements to varied audiences.

- A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to solving ambiguous problems and delivering meaningful results.

### Preferred

- Experience working in fintech, payments, accounting, or another regulated industry.

- Understanding of accrual-based accounting principles and bookkeeping practices.

- Experience building or operating ledger, reconciliation, treasury, wallet, settlement, or financial reporting systems.

- Experience working with globally distributed teams and products operating across multiple markets.

## Team Information

The Financial Platform team is the core engine powering Airwallex's global expansion. We own the fundamental financial stack, including the Client Wallet, Transaction Processing Engine, and Internal Ledger.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- backend engineering
- software architecture
- scalability
- security
- data integrity

### Nice to have
- fintech
- payments
- accounting
- ledger
- reconciliation
- treasury
- wallet
- settlement
- financial reporting

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