Senior Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

📋 Job Overview

As a Senior Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform, you’ll lead one or more teams building and operating the core systems behind Airwallex’s issuing products, including card lifecycle management, high-throughput transaction processing, and clearance, settlement, and dispute workflows. You’ll combine people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership to help your teams build reliable, scalable systems for high-stakes financial workflows.

🏢 About Airwallex

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 2,700 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.

🎯 The Role

You’ll remain technically credible and engaged at an architectural level while focusing primarily on team health, execution, and long-term technical quality rather than acting as the primary individual contributor. You’ll partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to improve reliability, observability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency across the platform.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams.
• Build a strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
• Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems.
• Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities.
• Guide pragmatic technology and platform decisions that balance innovation, stability, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
• Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains.
• Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot.
• Prior experience leading teams responsible for high-availability, low-latency systems.

🎁 Benefits

Airwallex offers a competitive compensation package and benefits, including opportunities for professional growth and development within a fast-paced, innovative environment.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information was provided in the job description.