Engineering Lead / Manager, Growth

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 1,700 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.

Locations:

Singapore

The Opportunity: Be Part of Our Growth Team

Our Growth Team sits at the heart of Airwallex’s mission, focusing on user acquisition and strategic market expansion. We leverage data and cutting-edge technologies to craft seamless, intuitive experiences that help millions of users discover, engage with, and benefit from our products.

From new-user funnels to onboarding optimizations, our Growth team is all about experimentation, rapid iteration, and driving sustainable business impact. Whether it’s designing scalable architectures for high-traffic pages, building robust A/B testing frameworks, or integrating global marketing platforms, the Growth team’s contributions directly shape how we attract and retain customers worldwide.

Joining the Growth team means you’ll have a front-row seat to the most crucial stage of our product lifecycle and play a pivotal role in fueling the next wave of our global expansion.

1. Lead a team of engineers, set goals and development targets for the engineers within managed team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress;
2. Work closely with Product Managers to analysis the product requirements and then produce the technique solutions & execution plan to deliver the software products;
3. Hands-on design, implement and deliver software functions;
4. Analyze and validate the technique design for the software functions from the team;
5. Review code from team members and ensure the standards;
6. Engage with the Product Manager into building a backlog that continuously contributes to the execution of the roadmap;
7. Contributing to the hiring, training and development of the engineers within the managed team.
8. Assure the collaboration between your team and other teams including local/global engineering teams, infrastructure teams, and product manager teams.

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

1. Have experience in developing large-scale system control interface;
2. Fluent in English;
3. Bachelor degree in computer science and related majors;
4. Proficient in Java 8, familiar with Java multi-threading, high concurrency, IO / NIO, network communication, etc .;
5. Familiar with commonly used design patterns, with experience in design and development of large-scale distributed, high concurrency, high load, high availability systems;
6. Master various common server technologies, which can optimize service response and data query, ensure various service quality, and solve the problems of high concurrency and high availability;
7. Familiar with Spring / Spring Boot;
8. Familiar with HTTP, TCP / IP protocol and REST specifications;
9. Master Gradle / Maven and other build tools;
10. Familiar with the use of Docker cluster;
11. Familiar with JSON & XML.

1. International clearing and settlement / foreign exchange transactions;
2. Fluent in English;
3. Cassandra / Redis / NoSQL / Hadoop;
4. Kotlin / Scala / Python / Golang / R;
5. Docker Swarm / Kubernetes;
6. JavaScript / Angular / React / CSS3;
7. Aliyun Cloud / AWS.

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.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.