Engineering Lead, Tech Platform

**About Airwallex**:
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 100,000 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

**The Opportunity**:
As a vital member of the Tech Platform Team, you will be part of a specialized force that meticulously bridges the gap between business exigencies and architectural finesse. You will engage in:

- Masterfully addressing intricate, organization-wide challenges through the strategic deployment of cutting-edge technologies such as reactive programming, temporal, vector databases, distributed systems, and advanced gateway solutions;
- Comprehensive, organization-wide evaluations of strategic solutions.

**Responsibilities**:

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

**Qualifications**:

- More than 7 years of back-end development experience and more than 3 years of back-end architecture experience;
- Have experience in developing large-scale system;
- Fluent in English;
- Proficient in Java 8, familiar with Java multi-threading, high concurrency, IO / NIO, network communication, etc.;
- In depth knowledge in one of these: OpenResty/PostgreSQL/Search Engine
- Familiar with commonly used design patterns, with experience in design and development of large-scale distributed, high concurrency, high load, high availability systems;
- 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

**Equal opportunity**:
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.