Airwallex - Senior Frontend Engineer, Growth
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional frontend engineering experience, including building and operating production web applications, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. • Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and modern frontend development practices, with solid computer science fundamentals and experience building clean, modular, maintainable applications. • Strong understanding of frontend architecture and web performance, including component design, state management, API integration, responsive design, accessibility, and performance optimization. • Proven ability to independently design and deliver complex frontend solutions, making sound technical tradeoffs and owning features from implementation through production. • Strong ownership, problem-solving, and collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, work effectively with cross-functional teams, and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal oversight. • Experience building growth platforms, campaign management systems, content management systems, experimentation frameworks, or customer-facing conversion funnels. • Experience developing AI-powered applications or agentic user experiences, including interactive AI workflows, streaming responses, and human-in-the-loop interfaces. • Experience with web performance optimization, A/B testing, feature flagging, analytics instrumentation, and conversion optimization. • Experience with modern frontend ecosystems, including Next.js, server-side rendering, static generation, design systems, and frontend build tooling. • Experience with rapid prototyping and using data to validate product hypotheses and guide iteration. • Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments. • Experience mentoring engineers and improving frontend engineering practices. • You'll thrive here if • You have high agency. You proactively identify opportunities for improvement and take ownership of delivering solutions. • You're a strong builder. You enjoy turning ideas into polished, production-ready experiences and take pride in usability, performance, and code quality. • You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You balance engineering excellence with speed of execution and focus on measurable customer and business impact. • You're comfortable with ambiguity. You break down complex problems, make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information, and adapt quickly. • You have strong product intuition. You care about the customer experience, challenge assumptions, and use data and experimentation to guide decisions. • You communicate proactively. You surface risks early, collaborate effectively, and bring solutions rather than just problems. • You thrive in a global environment. You're comfortable working with distributed teams across APAC, EMEA, and the US.
Responsibilities
• As a Frontend Engineer within the Growth team, you will architect and build scalable, high-performance frontend solutions that power growth funnels, landing pages, and marketing campaigns. You will drive experimentation, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and enable data-driven strategies that shape how we acquire and engage users globally. • This role is based in San Francisco. • Design, develop, and enhance highly scalable, performance-driven frontend solutions using React and TypeScript for growth initiatives, including landing pages and marketing campaigns. • Write well-tested, maintainable, and efficient code, ensuring robust performance and smooth user experiences. • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to track and interpret critical user behavior metrics, supporting A/B testing, feature flagging, and experimentation frameworks. • Work closely with Design, Product, and Marketing teams to deliver intuitive, delightful user interfaces and continuously refine key user journey flows to increase conversions and reduce friction. • Develop rapid prototypes to validate new ideas or hypotheses related to user acquisition and engagement; use insights to iterate quickly. • Champion frontend best practices, uphold high standards of code quality, and drive technical leadership and architectural decisions for growth-focused products. • Integrate secure coding practices and frameworks to protect user data and proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with global regulations.
Benefits
• US$158K – $225K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable national, federal, state, and local law. • These expected base pay ranges are based on information at the time this post was generated and represent the company’s good faith minimum and maximum ranges for this role at the time of posting. • The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors. • Certain roles may be eligible for other compensation including, but not limited to, annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, or other forms of compensation in addition to the established salary range. • 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 example, for US-based employees, they are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year. • Further details about our compensation and benefits package are available upon request by contacting our Talent Acquisition team. • Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. • We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. • We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full. • Our Growth Team sits at the heart of Airwallex’s mission, focusing on user acquisition and strategic market expansion. We leverage data and cutting-edge technologies to craft seamless, intuitive experiences that help millions of users discover, engage with, and benefit from our products. • From new-user funnels to onboarding optimizations, our Growth team is all about experimentation, rapid iteration, and driving sustainable business impact. Whether it’s designing scalable architectures for high-traffic pages, building robust A/B testing frameworks, or integrating global marketing platforms, the Growth team’s contributions directly shape how we attract and retain customers worldwide.
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