Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

Airwallex
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Java","Kotlin","Go","Python","Kafka","REST","Docker","Kubernetes","GCP","AWS","Splunk","Grafana","Prometheus"]

Lead and develop one or more engineering teams building and operating critical components of the issuing platform. Drive technical direction, delivery ownership, and architectural oversight while enabling engineers to ship reliable, scalable systems for global card issuing, transactions, and settlement.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
7 months ago

Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

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Job Summary

Lead and develop one or more engineering teams building and operating critical components of the issuing platform. Drive technical direction, delivery ownership, and architectural oversight while enabling engineers to ship reliable, scalable systems for global card issuing, transactions, and settlement.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •People leadership and team development: Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through regular feedback, performance management, and career development; Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement; Support hiring and onboarding to scale the team sustainably.
  • •Technical leadership and delivery: Provide technical direction and architectural guidance for high-impact transaction processing systems; Partner with senior engineers and staff engineers to design scalable, resilient solutions; Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
  • •Platform and infrastructure ownership: Guide the evolution of application and platform infrastructure to reduce operational overhead and improve developer productivity; Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.
  • •Strategic collaboration: Work closely with product, operations, and other engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities; Evaluate new technologies and patterns, and make pragmatic decisions that balance innovation with stability.
  • •WHO YOU ARE: We are looking for senior engineers with deep technical expertise and a strong track record of impact as a tech lead.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ 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.
  • •Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
Experience:10+ yearsFintechPayments
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:JavaKotlinGoPythonKafkaRESTDockerKubernetesGCPAWSSplunkGrafanaPrometheus
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinGoPythonKafkaRESTDockerKubernetesGCPAWSSplunkGrafanaPrometheus

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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