Engineering Lead / Manager, KYC

About this role

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT

Lead the engineering direction for KYC systems that make user onboarding safer, faster, and more efficient at scale.

• Build and improve automation and workflow systems that streamline registration approval and reduce manual effort for internal operations teams.

• Develop AI- and data-driven solutions to identify user risk and help prevent fraudulent or malicious activity.

• Partner closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver effective technical solutions.

• Raise the bar on architecture, reliability, performance, and engineering quality while mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers on the team.

You'll work from our Singapore office five days a week.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

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