Engineering Lead/Manager, Risk

Airwallex
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Lead and shape the risk platform engineering strategy and delivery for real-time fraud detection and client-facing risk products at global scale. Build and mentor managers and engineers, define roadmaps with PMs, ensure reliable, scalable architecture, and drive code quality, cross-team collaboration, and operational excellence in a high-impact fintech environment.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
8 months ago

Engineering Lead/Manager, Risk

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Job Summary

Lead and shape the risk platform engineering strategy and delivery for real-time fraud detection and client-facing risk products at global scale. Build and mentor managers and engineers, define roadmaps with PMs, ensure reliable, scalable architecture, and drive code quality, cross-team collaboration, and operational excellence in a high-impact fintech environment.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide strategic leadership for a mission-critical fraud and risk platform, aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements
  • •Work with PM, Design, Ops, Commercial and Strategy teams to shape the future of our fraud management products
  • •Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization (including managers and senior ICs): set goals, establish career paths, run performance and compensation processes, and cultivate a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence
  • •Partner closely with PM to define the roadmap, prioritize a measurable backlog, and deliver outcomes that improve detection rates, reduce false positives, and minimize chargebacks
  • •Serve as the accountable owner for architecture and system quality across services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency for real-time decisioning under high load

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in back-end engineering with 2+ years in engineering management, including ownership of complex, distributed systems in production
  • •Risk management or Fintech product engineering experience
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • •Proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, high-concurrency patterns, I/O/NIO, and network programming
  • •Proficiency with Spring / Spring Boot, HTTP, TCP/IP, REST, and build tools such as Gradle / Maven
Experience:8+ yearsFintechRiskBackendDistributed systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaSpring BootDockerKubernetesGradleMavenRESTHTTPTCP/IPNoSQLKafkaFlinkSparkCassandraRedisPythonGolangKotlinScalaAWS

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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