Engineering Lead, Payments Platform

Airwallex
Amsterdam
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Strategic thinking"]

Lead a high-impact engineering team building the next generation Payments Acceptance infrastructure for a global platform. Drive product delivery, architecture reviews, and operational excellence while collaborating with product and partner teams across Amsterdam-based and international groups. Own people development, guide technical strategy, and ship high-availability microservices connecting to a React frontend.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
7 months ago

Engineering Lead, Payments Platform

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Job Summary

Lead a high-impact engineering team building the next generation Payments Acceptance infrastructure for a global platform. Drive product delivery, architecture reviews, and operational excellence while collaborating with product and partner teams across Amsterdam-based and international groups. Own people development, guide technical strategy, and ship high-availability microservices connecting to a React frontend.
Location: Amsterdam
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team of engineers, set goals and development targets for the engineers within the team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress
  • •Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritize projects and ship incrementally to production
  • •Develop various REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture, connecting with our React frontend
  • •Conduct architectural reviews for current and upcoming solutions
  • •Address tech debt, and enhance operational effectiveness such as MTTD and MTTR
  • •Contribute to the hiring, training and development of the engineers within the managed team

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on low latency and distributed systems
  • •At least one year experience in managing teams
  • •Strong CS fundamentals; experience with Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot
  • •Experience designing and building REST APIs; high volume distributed systems; Kafka event streams; distributed data storage systems (Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence or similar); GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc), Docker and Kubernetes exposure; JavaScript / TypeScript
  • •Operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus
Experience:8+ yearsFintechPaymentsSaaS
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinSpringSpring BootRESTKafkaCassandraHazelcastOracle CoherenceGCPAWSDockerKubernetesJavaScriptTypeScriptNew RelicStatsDElkDatadogPrometheus

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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