Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

Airwallex
Melbourne
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceExperience: 8-10 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead the technical direction of Airwallex's mobile platform across iOS and Android. Design and evolve the core architecture, own critical shared components, and multiply mobile engineers across product teams while driving security, reliability, performance, CI/CD, and cross-team architectural initiatives.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
2 months ago

Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction of Airwallex's mobile platform across iOS and Android. Design and evolve the core architecture, own critical shared components, and multiply mobile engineers across product teams while driving security, reliability, performance, CI/CD, and cross-team architectural initiatives.
Location: Melbourne
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve mobile architecture: Lead the design and evolution of the shared architecture for our native mobile apps, including navigation, state management, networking, offline strategies, and error handling; drive modularisation and clear boundaries between foundation modules and product features.
  • •Own core mobile platform capabilities: Own and maintain shared libraries and frameworks (e.g. design system components, analytics, feature flags, experimentation, authentication, payments, observability); be responsible for the application's authentication and authorization mechanisms; ensure these components are stable, well-documented, and easy to adopt and extend by product teams.
  • •Improve security, reliability, performance, and observability: Drive mobile application security, including anti-tampering measures, certificate pinning, and security best practices; define and track platform-level metrics; partner with product teams to improve reliability and performance; strengthen end-to-end observability.
  • •Elevate developer experience, CI/CD: Own and improve mobile CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise); reduce build times, flakiness, and friction; improve developer tooling, templates, documentation, and automation.
  • •Manage Mobile Release, Operational Health, and Best Practices: Own end-to-end mobile release process; lead on-call rotation for incidents; define and enforce mobile engineering best practices across the organization.

Key Requirements

  • •8–10+ years of experience building native mobile applications on iOS or Android, including at least 3+ years operating at a Senior or Staff level.
  • •Deep expertise in iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, async/await, or Android: Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines, Hilt with commercial knowledge of both platforms.
  • •Proven track record leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architectures (e.g. modularisation, design systems, networking, offline support, or similar).
  • •Strong focus on code quality and reliability: designs for testability and maintainability; writes high-quality automated tests and uses coverage meaningfully.
  • •Experience owning and improving mobile CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Bitrise), including build optimisation, test stability, and release workflows.
Experience:8-10 yearsFintechPaymentsB2B SaaS
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:SwiftSwiftUICombineAsync/awaitKotlinAndroidXJetpackCoroutinesHiltGitHub ActionsBitriseDesign systemObservabilityCrashlyticsSentry

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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