Engineering Lead, Financial Platform

About the role

Airwallex is looking for an Engineering Lead for its Core Banking Platform team, which powers the company's global operations by handling client wallet transactions and keeping client ledgers accurate. The team is primarily based in Singapore and builds a distributed multi-currency wallet platform supporting products such as global transfers, payments, acquiring, card issuing and lending.

Key responsibilities

• Guide and support a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment
• Take part in development and present and defend technical designs and decisions
• Lead the development of a scalable, financially accurate transaction engine
• Build and maintain the distributed multi-currency wallet platform
• Work with product and other engineering teams so technical solutions match business goals
• Develop tools and processes, including exploring AI opportunities, to improve engineering practice and system observability

Required profile

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in distributed systems, backend development and database technologies
• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers
• Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledgers, financial transactions) and experience in a financial domain
• Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders