Staff Software Engineer, Productivity

Airwallex
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Mentoring","Team collaboration"]

Lead planning, design, and architecture of Airwallex's developer tooling and infrastructure to accelerate a global engineering organization. Define domain-level strategy for AI-driven automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with feature teams to remove bottlenecks, build scalable microservice components, and raise engineering quality across hundreds of engineers in a Seattle-based US squad.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Productivity

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Job Summary

Lead planning, design, and architecture of Airwallex's developer tooling and infrastructure to accelerate a global engineering organization. Define domain-level strategy for AI-driven automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with feature teams to remove bottlenecks, build scalable microservice components, and raise engineering quality across hundreds of engineers in a Seattle-based US squad.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the planning, design, and implementation of the Airwallex engineering productivity system, defining domain-level technical roadmaps and owning their delivery end-to-end.
  • •Work with feature teams to deeply understand the engineering process and development directions, complete productivity needs analysis, architecture design, and core function development.
  • •Design and develop components based on the company's microservice framework, ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure services including messaging platforms, observability systems, and workflow automation tools.
  • •Define and drive the AI-powered developer productivity strategy: evaluate, prototype, and deploy AI/ML-powered solutions to streamline developer workflows and improve code quality.
  • •Optimize CI/CD pipelines at scale: architect and continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery efficiency, reduce build times, and increase deployment frequency.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual BonusRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.
  • •Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js and their frameworks.
  • •Hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Aliyun) and tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.
  • •Familiar with design patterns and building large-scale distributed, high concurrency, high load systems.
  • •Ability to review RFCs, provide deep architectural insights, and mentor engineers across teams.
Experience:8+ yearsFintechPayments
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingMentoringTeam collaboration
Tech Stack:PythonJavaGoKotlinRustNode.jsTerraformKubernetesDockerAWSGCPDatadogGrafanaPrometheusKafkaGradleBazelCI/CD pipelines

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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