Engineering Lead, Scale

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 an Engineering Lead, Scale, you’ll lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex’s embedded finance products. You’ll manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality, while staying technically credible and involved at an architectural level.

• Own technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design.

• Drive high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.

• Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity across the team.

• Partner with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities.

• Translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.