Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Job Overview

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 2,200 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a key part in diverse initiatives across our international payments platform.
• Construct, design, and engineer payment systems, including gateway, acquiring, issuing, or equivalent.
• Gain comprehensive knowledge of Visa and Mastercard payment platforms.
• Collaborate with the payments product team and occasional interaction with partners' engineering teams.
• Contribute to building the next-generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure with a constant focus on Merchant needs.
• Develop various REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture.
• Design and implement new capabilities aligned with our product roadmap.
• Conduct architectural reviews for current and upcoming solutions.
• Address tech debt and enhance operational effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Over 2 years of expertise in contemporary engineering methodologies, emphasizing continuous integration and quality engineering.
• Proficient in guiding a concept from inception to implementation, with a dedication to delivering meticulously tested and high-quality solutions.
• Robust computer science fundamentals, with a recent focus on Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot technologies.
• Specialized in designing and constructing REST APIs, adept in handling high-volume distributed systems, Kafka event streams, and distributed data storage systems such as Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence, or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated proficiency in cloud platforms like GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront), along with exposure to containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Skilled in Javascript / Typescript and well-versed in operational tooling, including but not limited to New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, and Prometheus.

About Airwallex

Airwallex is a rapidly growing fintech unicorn, founded in 2015 and now flourishing at the Series F financing stage. With a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and APAC, we specialize in providing diverse financial payment solutions for B2B merchants, empowering businesses to operate seamlessly anywhere, anytime.

Benefits

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.