Staff Software Engineer, Risk

Airwallex
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Java","Spring Boot","Gradle","Maven","Docker","Kubernetes","Observability","Logging","Metrics","Tracing","Incident management"]

Senior technical leader and hands-on builder on Airwallex's Risk Platform. Own critical real-time detection components and client-facing risk tooling, shape system architecture for distributed, event-driven services, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to production, collaborating with data/ML teams and cross-functional partners to maintain reliability, scalability, and security at global scale.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
8 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Risk

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Job Summary

Senior technical leader and hands-on builder on Airwallex's Risk Platform. Own critical real-time detection components and client-facing risk tooling, shape system architecture for distributed, event-driven services, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to production, collaborating with data/ML teams and cross-functional partners to maintain reliability, scalability, and security at global scale.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the technical direction of core risk services, including real-time detection, decision engines, and risk tooling, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient under high throughput and low-latency constraints.
  • •Design and evolve system architecture for distributed, event-driven risk systems (microservices, streaming pipelines, feature stores, model serving layers) that support global products and regulatory requirements.
  • •Own end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives: from high-level design and technical specifications, to implementation, rollout strategies, and continuous improvement.
  • •Be deeply hands-on in code and design, writing high-quality production code (primarily in Java/Spring Boot) and driving high-impact design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions.
  • •Partner closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager to shape the roadmap, define technical milestones, and translate business and risk objectives into robust engineering solutions.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of back-end engineering experience, including substantial time owning and operating complex, distributed systems in production.
  • •Deep experience in risk, fraud, or fintech systems (e.g., payments, banking, trading, or similar high-stakes domains where correctness and reliability are critical).
  • •Strong proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, high-concurrency patterns, performance tuning, and networked service design (I/O/NIO, HTTP/TCP, REST).
  • •Hands-on experience with distributed system design, including event-driven architectures, partitioning/sharding, consistency models, caching strategies, and resiliency patterns.
  • •Proficiency with Spring / Spring Boot and build tools such as Gradle or Maven.
Experience:FintechRiskFraudPayments
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:JavaSpring BootGradleMavenDockerKubernetesObservabilityLoggingMetricsTracingIncident management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaSpring BootGradleMavenDockerKubernetesNIOHTTPRESTSecurityObservabilityLoggingMetricsTracingKafkaFlinkSparkCassandraRedisNoSQL

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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