Airwallex - Engineering Lead, Growth
Requirements
• Essentials • Essentials • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams or complex technical initiatives, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack engineering, with experience designing, building, and operating scalable production systems using technologies such as Python, Java/Kotlin, React, or TypeScript. • Strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack engineering • Proven technical leadership and execution skills, with a track record of leading complex engineering projects, making sound architectural decisions, managing technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-quality solutions. • Proven technical leadership and execution skills • Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers, through mentorship, technical guidance, effective delegation, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. • Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers • Strong ownership, product judgment, and cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, prioritize effectively, and translate business objectives into measurable engineering outcomes. • Strong ownership, product judgment, and cross-functional collaboration • Preferred • Preferred • Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or product-led growth experiences. • Experience developing AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability. • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP. • Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, or Revenue Operations. • Experience establishing engineering processes, improving delivery predictability, and scaling team execution in fast-moving environments. • Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments. • You'll thrive here if • You have high agency and ownership. You proactively identify high-impact opportunities, take accountability for outcomes, and empower your team to deliver. • You're a technical leader who builds. You stay close to architecture and implementation, make sound technical decisions, and lead by example. • You're a technical leader who builds. • You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You balance engineering quality, delivery speed, and business impact, prioritizing what moves the needle. • You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented. • You're comfortable leading through ambiguity. You bring structure to complex problems, set clear priorities, and make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information. • You're comfortable leading through ambiguity. • You grow people and teams. You coach engineers, delegate effectively, create clarity, and build a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. • You grow people and teams. • You communicate proactively and influence effectively. You align stakeholders, surface risks early, navigate tradeoffs, and drive decisions across functions. • You communicate proactively and influence effectively. • You thrive in a global environment. You're comfortable leading and collaborating across distributed teams in APAC, EMEA, and the US. • You thrive in a global environment.
Benefits
• Total Package $15K – $22K per month • 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 675,000 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. • How you'll make impact • Growth Engineering at Airwallex is building an AI-native platform that powers customer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion. We're developing scalable infrastructure, intelligent decision systems, and automation capabilities that connect product, sales, and marketing to drive measurable business outcomes. • As an Engineering Lead, you'll lead a team of engineers to design, build, and scale the platforms and experiences that power Growth at Airwallex. You'll combine technical leadership, hands-on problem-solving, and strong execution to turn ambitious growth opportunities into reliable products and measurable business impact. • Lead engineering execution, owning the delivery of complex Growth initiatives from technical planning and architecture through implementation, launch, and continuous improvement. • Lead engineering execution • Drive technical direction, guiding the design of scalable backend services, frontend applications, event-driven systems, and AI-native platform capabilities that enable experimentation, personalization, and growth automation. • Drive technical direction • Build and develop a high-performing engineering team, providing technical mentorship, coaching, clear expectations, and a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence. • Build and develop a high-performing engineering team • Partner across functions, working closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, and other engineering teams to translate ambiguous business problems into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions. • Partner across functions • Drive measurable business outcomes, leveraging experimentation, customer insights, and data to prioritize high-impact opportunities, accelerate iteration, and improve growth performance. • Drive measurable business outcomes • Raise the engineering bar, establishing strong practices for system design, code quality, performance, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence. • Raise the engineering bar • US: You'll work from our San Francisco office three days a week.
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