Engineering Lead, Cards

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

The Cards team at Airwallex builds and maintains distributed systems that enable businesses to issue debit cards and manage expenses at scale. The team addresses complex requirements around compliance, security, and the evolving needs of global users, supporting millions of seamless card transactions and ensuring robust, reliable expense management solutions for companies worldwide.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Lead to lead our Cards team. As the Engineering Lead, you will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure the scalability and reliability of our procurement platform.

This role is based in Singapore.

• Lead the development of scalable and efficient product features within the Cards domain.

• Define and execute the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business and customer needs.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritise and integrate new features seamlessly.

• Ensure solutions are high-quality, secure, and performant, with a strong focus on user experience.

• Architect systems that scale efficiently and handle increasing data volumes.

• Drive best practices in software engineering, including agile development, continuous integration, and automated testing.

• Communicate technical decisions, progress, and risks effectively to stakeholders.

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline

• 6+ years of software engineering experience

• 1+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers, ideally in a team lead or engineering manager capacity

• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and balance multiple projects effectively

• A collaborative, problem-solving mindset; comfortable working closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver solutions

• Ability to build solid working relationships across teams and with stakeholders, fostering trust and alignment

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a focus on team development and clear, transparent leadership

• Experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot

• Familiarity with fintech and global payment systems.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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