# Engineering Lead, Growth

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, US
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147K - $280K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The total package for this role ranges from $147K to $280K, including equity and bonus.

## How you'll make impact

As an Engineering Lead in the Growth department at Airwallex, you'll lead a team of engineers to design, build, and scale platforms and experiences that power Growth at Airwallex. Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading engineering execution, owning the delivery of complex Growth initiatives from technical planning and architecture through implementation, launch, and continuous improvement.

- Driving technical direction, guiding the design of scalable backend services, frontend applications, event-driven systems, and AI-native platform capabilities.

- Building and developing a high-performing engineering team, providing technical mentorship, coaching, clear expectations, and a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

- Partnering across functions, working closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, and other engineering teams to translate ambiguous business problems into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions.

- Driving measurable business outcomes, leveraging experimentation, customer insights, and data to prioritize high-impact opportunities, accelerate iteration, and improve growth performance.

- Raising the engineering bar, establishing strong practices for system design, code quality, performance, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.

## What we're looking for

### Essentials

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams or complex technical initiatives, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack engineering, with experience designing, building, and operating scalable production systems using technologies such as Python, Java/Kotlin, React, or TypeScript.

- Proven technical leadership and execution skills, with a track record of leading complex engineering projects, making sound architectural decisions, managing technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-quality solutions.

- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers, through mentorship, technical guidance, effective delegation, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

- Strong ownership, product judgment, and cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, prioritize effectively, and translate business objectives into measurable engineering outcomes.

### Preferred

- Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or product-led growth experiences.

- Experience developing AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability.

- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.

- Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, or Revenue Operations.

- Experience establishing engineering processes, improving delivery predictability, and scaling team execution in fast-moving environments.

- Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments.

## You'll thrive here if

- You have high agency and ownership, proactively identifying high-impact opportunities, taking accountability for outcomes, and empowering your team to deliver.

- You're a technical leader who builds, staying close to architecture and implementation, making sound technical decisions, and leading by example.

- You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented, balancing engineering quality, delivery speed, and business impact, prioritizing what moves the needle.

- You're comfortable leading through ambiguity, bringing structure to complex problems, setting clear priorities, and making thoughtful decisions with incomplete information.

- You grow people and teams, coaching engineers, delegating effectively, creating clarity, and building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

- You communicate proactively and influence effectively, aligning stakeholders, surfacing risks early, navigating tradeoffs, and driving decisions across functions.

- You thrive in a global environment, leading and collaborating across distributed teams in APAC, EMEA, and the US.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java/Kotlin
- React
- TypeScript
- backend engineering
- frontend engineering
- full-stack engineering

### Nice to have
- growth platforms
- experimentation systems
- customer segmentation engines
- marketing automation
- product-led growth experiences
- AI-powered applications
- agentic workflows
- distributed systems
- event-driven architectures
- data pipelines
- cloud infrastructure

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