Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

Airwallex
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Swift","SwiftUI","Combine","Async/await","Kotlin","AndroidX","Jetpack","Coroutines","Hilt","Design systems","Observability","CI/CD","GitHub Actions","Bitrise","Android","IOS","Payments","Security","QA","Testing"]

Lead the mobile foundation across iOS and Android, shaping core architecture, owning shared libraries, and driving reliability, performance, and developer experience. You’ll mentor engineers, guide cross-team initiatives, and ensure secure, scalable mobile platforms powering Airwallex’s spend and payments products.

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Airwallex
2 months ago

Staff Mobile Engineer, Spend Foundation

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Job Summary

Lead the mobile foundation across iOS and Android, shaping core architecture, owning shared libraries, and driving reliability, performance, and developer experience. You’ll mentor engineers, guide cross-team initiatives, and ensure secure, scalable mobile platforms powering Airwallex’s spend and payments products.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve mobile architecture; lead the design and evolution of the shared architecture for native mobile apps, including navigation, state management, networking, offline strategies and error handling.
  • •Own core mobile platform capabilities; maintain shared libraries and frameworks, authentication/authorization mechanisms, and ensure they are stable and easy to adopt by product teams.
  • •Improve security, reliability, performance, and observability; define platform-level metrics, drive initiatives with product teams, and strengthen end-to-end observability.
  • •Elevate developer experience and CI/CD; own mobile CI/CD pipelines and improve tooling, templates, and automation.
  • •Lead cross-team technical initiatives and mentor engineers; drive design reviews, hiring, and growth of the mobile engineering community.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

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:FintechPaymentsB2B SaaSMobileCloud
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:SwiftSwiftUICombineAsync/awaitKotlinAndroidXJetpackCoroutinesHiltDesign systemsObservabilityCI/CDGitHub ActionsBitriseAndroidIOSPaymentsSecurityQATesting
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SwiftSwiftUICombineAsync/awaitKotlinAndroidXJetpackCoroutinesHiltGitHub ActionsBitriseObservabilityDesign systemsPayments

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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