Airwallex - Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

• Own and continuously improve our mobile CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Bitrise), reducing build times, flakiness, and friction in releasing features. • CI/CD pipelines • Improve developer experience for mobile engineers through tooling, templates, documentation, and automation. • Manage Mobile Release, Operational Health, and Best Practices • Own the end-to-end mobile release process across iOS and Android, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of new versions. • Establish clear guidelines and lead the on-call rotation for critical platform-level incidents, ensuring rapid response and resolution. • Define, document, and enforce mobile engineering best practices across the organization to maintain a high bar for code quality and platform consistency. • Lead cross-team technical initiatives • Drive cross-squad projects (e.g. rollout of a new design system, major architectural changes, cross-platform feature foundations) from problem definition through to rollout and adoption. • Align stakeholders (EMs, PMs, designers, backend/platform teams) around technical direction and trade-offs. • Be a hands-on technical leader and mentor • Lead by example with clean, testable, well-structured code on either iOS or Android, while setting standards across both platforms. • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and coaching. • Contribute to and influence hiring, onboarding, and the growth of the mobile engineering community at Airwallex. • We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications below. The preferred qualifications are a strong plus, but not strictly required. • 8–10+ years of experience building native mobile applications on iOS or Android, including at least 3+ years operating at a Senior or Staff level. • Deep expertise in • iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, async/await, or • Android: Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines, Hilt with commercial knowledge of both platforms. • Proven track record leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architectures (e.g. modularisation, design systems, networking, offline support, or similar). • leading cross-team technical initiatives • Strong focus on code quality and reliability: • code quality and reliability • Designs for testability and maintainability. • Writes high-quality automated tests and uses coverage meaningfully (not just as a number). • Experience owning and improving mobile CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Bitrise), including build optimisation, test stability, and release workflows. • mobile CI/CD pipelines • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority: • influence without authority • Aligns engineers, PMs, and designers around technical direction and makes pragmatic trade-offs. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Experience defining and driving a mobile platform roadmap, balancing foundational work with product delivery needs. • mobile platform roadmap • Prior ownership of shared mobile libraries or frameworks used by multiple product teams at scale. • Design systems and component libraries on mobile. • Design systems • Analytics, experimentation, and feature flagging on mobile. • Analytics, experimentation, and feature flagging • Observability tooling (e.g. Crashlytics, Sentry, logging/metrics platforms). • Observability tooling • Experience in domains such as payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS, especially where reliability, security, and regulatory requirements are critical. • payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS • Experience mentoring other senior engineers and playing a key role in hiring and growing mobile teams. • hiring and growing • Contributions to the mobile community (open source, talks, blog posts) or evidence of thought leadership in mobile architecture and foundations. • If you’re excited about shaping the foundations of high-quality native mobile apps used by businesses around the world—and multiplying the impact of every mobile engineer at Airwallex—we’d love to hear from you. • Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters • To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. • Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. • Equal opportunity • Equal opportunity