Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

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

The Financial Platform team builds the systems that underpin Airwallex’s financial integrity and global expansion. You’ll lead a team delivering reliable, scalable services that manage real-time balances, account for every transaction, and execute global settlements with precision.

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, creating a supportive, high-performance environment.

• Drive the delivery of complex engineering projects from design through production, balancing quality, timelines, and business objectives.

• Partner with Finance and product teams across Payments, GTPN, Issuing, FX, and Billing to translate accounting requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Provide technical direction on backend engineering practices, system architecture, security, scalability, and data integrity.