Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

Airwallex
Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, Beijing, Shanghai
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Banking, Lending & CreditExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Lead and mentor a distributed backend engineering team building a scalable, multi-currency wallet and transaction engine for Airwallex's Core Banking Platform in Singapore. Drive hands-on technical leadership, collaborate across product and engineering teams, and explore AI-enabled improvements to boost observability and engineering productivity while ensuring financial accuracy and system reliability.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
1 year ago

Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

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Job Summary

Lead and mentor a distributed backend engineering team building a scalable, multi-currency wallet and transaction engine for Airwallex's Core Banking Platform in Singapore. Drive hands-on technical leadership, collaborate across product and engineering teams, and explore AI-enabled improvements to boost observability and engineering productivity while ensuring financial accuracy and system reliability.
Location: Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, Beijing, Shanghai
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Banking, Lending & Credit
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment that encourages innovation and growth
  • •Hands-on technical leadership: actively guide development, defend technical designs and decisions
  • •Develop cutting-edge solutions by leading the transaction engine to ensure scalability, financial accuracy, and adaptability
  • •Build and maintain a distributed multi-currency wallet platform with precise financial oversight for client ledgers
  • •Collaborate across product and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business objectives

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission-critical, distributed systems
  • •2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers
  • •Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain
  • •Experienced in backend development with strong knowledge of databases
  • •Strong cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, plus docker and Kubernetes
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsBackendFinancial domain
Skills:Distributed systemsCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GCPAWSDockerKubernetesEvent-drivenObservabilitySplunkNewRelicPrometheusGrafana

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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