Engineering Director, Org & Identity

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring an Engineering Director for its Organization & Identity team in Singapore. You will lead the engineering strategy and execution for the core identity and organization foundations, covering user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modeling, account ownership and organization-level workflows.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for highly available, scalable and secure systems that provide a unified identity and organization foundation for Airwallex's products.
• Translate complex identity, security and organizational requirements into reliable platform capabilities, working closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance and Onboarding.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management and organizational design.
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence across architecture, delivery, operational reliability and security.
• Balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity and long-term maintainability as the platform evolves.

Required profile

• Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, account management or other foundational platform capabilities.
• Experience setting technical strategy and turning ambiguous business, product and security needs into clear engineering priorities.
• Track record of building high-performing engineering teams and partnering with product, design, risk, compliance and other stakeholders.
• Clear, direct communication and the ability to influence at both technical and executive levels.
• Preferred: comfort owning the roadmap, making decisions with incomplete information, and connecting dots across functions while holding the big picture.