Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring a Software Engineer for its Developer Experience team in Singapore. The team builds the tools and platforms that connect external developers to Airwallex's APIs, documentation, CLI, SDKs, OAuth, sandbox and developer apps. You will work five days a week from the Singapore office.

Key responsibilities

• Improve how external developers discover, understand, integrate with and build on Airwallex's APIs and platform
• Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success and Technical Support to streamline the developer experience, from API design and documentation to tooling, analytics and feedback loops
• Own API standards and conventions for clarity and consistency
• Build user and data analytics pipelines to understand how developers use the products and where they need help
• Develop a developer portal and documentation experience with AI as a core feature
• Contribute to open-source projects and foster a developer community
• Adopt technologies that raise the bar for engineering practices and ship external tools and services to customers

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong backend development
• Solid computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design
• Experience designing, building and operating high-volume distributed systems
• Experience releasing and maintaining well-known APIs or designing APIs
• Comfortable owning the roadmap yourself and working across time zones with a globally distributed team

Required skills

• Backend development in Java, Kotlin, Go or Python
• Cloud engineering with GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront) and Docker and Kubernetes
• Preferred: AI agent applications, MCP servers, open-source maintenance, major software migrations, developer experience roles