Engineering Director, Org & Identity

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

As Engineering Director, you’ll lead the engineering strategy and execution for Airwallex’s core identity and organization foundations, spanning user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modeling, account ownership, and organization-level workflows.

• Own the technical direction for highly available, scalable, and secure systems that provide a unified identity and organization foundation for Airwallex’s products.

• Drive the translation of complex identity, security, and organizational requirements into reliable platform capabilities, partnering closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Onboarding.

• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.

• Raise the bar for engineering excellence across architecture, delivery, operational reliability, and security.