Staff Software Engineer, Backend
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Requirements
• Experienced and Technically Proficient: You possess a wealth of experience in software development, underpinned by a robust expertise in Java/Kotlin. Your approach goes beyond mere coding; you are a craftsman of comprehensive solutions. As a technical bar raiser, you set high standards and lead by example, elevating the capabilities of those around you. • Empathetic and Insightful: Your deep empathy for customer needs drives your development process, allowing you to create intuitive and impactful products. This understanding is not just about meeting requirements, but about enriching user experiences. • Empathetic and Insightful: • Data-Driven and Analytical: You view data as a narrative element of development, a critical tool that informs your decision-making process. Your ability to interpret data enhances product performance and elevates user satisfaction, making you a pivotal member of our team. • Data-Driven and Analytical: • Collaborative and Knowledge-Sharing: True collaboration is second nature to you. You thrive in team settings and are committed to sharing knowledge and ideas, which you see as vital to fostering innovation. Your role as a coach involves mentoring peers and promoting a learning culture within the team. • Collaborative and Knowledge-Sharing: • Adaptable and Continuously Learning: In the fast-paced world of fintech, you stand out for your agility and eagerness to adopt new skills and technologies. Challenges are opportunities for growth, and you are always prepared to expand your horizons. • Adaptable and Continuously Learning: • Proactive and Ownership-Driven: You are self-motivated and take initiative, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership in your projects. Your proactive approach ensures that you are always ahead of the curve, ready to take on responsibilities and lead projects to successful outcomes. • Proactive and Ownership-Driven: • Efficient and Prioritization-Savvy: You excel at prioritizing tasks, which enables you to manage your workload effectively while maintaining high standards of quality. This skill ensures that critical project components receive the attention they need without sacrificing overall progress. • Efficient and Prioritization-Savvy:
Responsibilities
• Design and Build Scalable Systems • Architect, develop, and maintain microservices in Java/Kotlin (or similar languages), ensuring our high-traffic, high-availability systems meet global user demands. Implement best practices for service-to-service communication, orchestration, and fault tolerance. • Design scalable, reliable, and extensible systems for integrating with KYC verifications such as document verification, liveness verification, ID verification to support Global Expansions and maximize efficiency for automations • Enable Data-Driven Decisions • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to design data pipelines, analytics platforms, and event-driven architectures. • Ensure the data powering our Growth and Onboarding initiatives is accurate, reliable, and easily accessible. • Collaborate and Innovate • Work closely with cross-functional teams—Frontend, Product, Design, and Marketing—to translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions. • Participate in architectural reviews, code reviews, and strategy sessions to continually elevate the quality and performance of our backend services. • Define a measurable SLO for service performance. Improving operations involves optimizing processes, monitoring metrics, and ensuring alignment with SLOs to enhance reliability, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. • Promote Security & Compliance • Integrate secure coding practices and frameworks to protect user data and maintain global regulatory compliance. • Identify potential vulnerabilities, ensure robust authentication and authorization mechanisms, and proactively address security risks. • Efficient and Prioritization-Savvy: You excel at prioritizing tasks, which enables you to manage your workload effectively while maintaining high standards of quality. This skill ensures that critical project components receive the attention they need without sacrificing overall progress.
Benefits
• CNTotal Package CN¥40K – CN¥80K per month • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable 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 may vary depending on the nature of employment and work location. US-based employees 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 only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. • Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. • Attributes We Value • Attributes We Value • We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. • You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. • Be Part of Something Big: Join a team that's redefining the future of finance. Contribute directly to the core engine of user growth in a company that is reshaping global financial services. • Be Part of Something Big: • Grow With Us: At Airwallex, we're committed to your professional development. You'll have opportunities to learn, grow, and shape your career path in a fast-paced, innovative environment. • Grow With Us: • Collaborate With the Best: Work with a team of talented and passionate individuals who are driven by the desire to create something extraordinary. • Collaborate With the Best: • 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
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