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

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, US
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: SGD 250 - SGD 400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/c2618022-2509-4164-9fe0-ee0587c8496a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## Compensation

The salary range for this role is SGD 250 – SGD 400. The actual compensation offered will depend on multiple factors, including relevant experience, skills, and geographic location.

## How you'll make impact

As an Engineering Lead / Manager, KYC, you will lead the engineering direction for KYC systems that make user onboarding safer, faster, and more efficient at scale. Your responsibilities include:

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

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

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

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

## What we're looking for

### 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.

## Benefits

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 US-based employees, benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- software engineering
- Kotlin
- Java
- React
- TypeScript
- automation
- workflow systems
- AI
- data-driven solutions

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

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