Staff Backend Engineer, Issuing Platform

Airwallex
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentoring","Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior staff engineer focused on designing, building, and evolving the issuing platform’s most technically complex components. Own architecture and reliability of real-time card transactions, mentor engineers, and lead cross-team technical initiatives from design through production, based in Singapore with a strong emphasis on scalability, observability, and platform evolution.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
7 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Issuing Platform

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Job Summary

Senior staff engineer focused on designing, building, and evolving the issuing platform’s most technically complex components. Own architecture and reliability of real-time card transactions, mentor engineers, and lead cross-team technical initiatives from design through production, based in Singapore with a strong emphasis on scalability, observability, and platform evolution.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable systems that powers real-time card transactions
  • •Take end-to-end ownership of complex problem spaces, from system design through production rollout and long-term evolution.
  • •Lead the design of distributed, event-driven systems with strong guarantees around correctness, performance, and resiliency.
  • •Drive architectural improvements that reduce complexity, improve operability, and enable future product growth.
  • •Set a high bar for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with sustained impact as a senior or staff-level individual contributor.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • •Strong proficiency in backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
  • •Deep experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production.
  • •Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
Experience:8+ yearsFintechPayments
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:MentoringLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinGoPythonKafkaRESTDockerKubernetesGCPAWSSplunkGrafanaPrometheus

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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