Staff Software Engineer, New Products

Airwallex
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 95,796 - 177,907 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership","Strategic thinking"]

Join Airwallex’s Founders’ Lab to build 0-to-1 fintech AI products. You’ll own end-to-end tech, drive AI innovations, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and work across the full stack to deliver market-ready software while laying the groundwork for incubation projects within Airwallex’s global platform.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, New Products

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Job Summary

Join Airwallex’s Founders’ Lab to build 0-to-1 fintech AI products. You’ll own end-to-end tech, drive AI innovations, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and work across the full stack to deliver market-ready software while laying the groundwork for incubation projects within Airwallex’s global platform.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with the CEO and global leadership to translate high-level strategic visions and AI capabilities into functional, market-ready software.
  • •Lead the technical evaluation and implementation of emerging AI technologies and intelligent workflows for the financial platform.
  • •Make pragmatic architectural decisions and balance speed with maintainability, enabling quick prototypes that can be handed off and scaled if successful.
  • •Own the Full Stack, delivering complete solutions from data models to user interfaces across the stack.
  • •Help lay the technical foundation for incubation projects, ensuring a smooth transition as they grow into standalone product lines.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 95,796 - 177,907 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience, with a background that includes operating at a Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced, greenfield environments.
  • •Strong Product Sense: You look at engineering through a commercial lens. You care about user experience, business impact, and why a product is being built, not just the code itself.
  • •Comfort with Ambiguity: You enjoy working in spaces where requirements aren't fully defined yet, and you can independently map out technical specs from high-level direction.
  • •Pragmatic Problem Solver: You are resourceful, self-directed, and focused on delivering outcomes, finding efficient ways to work through technical or institutional blockers.
  • •Deep Backend & Full-Stack Capabilities: Solid fundamentals in high-performance backend ecosystems alongside the practical ability to build frontend interfaces when moving quickly.
Experience:10+ yearsFintechPaymentsFinancial services
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadershipStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:Generative AILLMsAIFrontendBackendMicroservicesCloudData models

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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