Lead / Manager Software Engineer, Issuing Platform Team

**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 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.

Engineering Lead / Manager, Issuing Platform Team

**Hiring Location**:Singapore

Airwallex is a rapidly growing fintech unicorn, founded in 2015 and now flourishing at the Series E financing stage. With a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and APAC, we specialize in providing diverse financial payment solutions for B2B merchants, empowering businesses to operate seamlessly anywhere, anytime.

**Who We Are? About the Team**:
The Issuing Engineering team at Airwallex is responsible for developing a range of tools and systems related to card management, transaction processing, and settlement operations. Their key areas of ownership include:
- Cards: Providing customers with tools for managing card features and lifecycle, ensuring a delightful and scalable user experience.
- Transactions: Building a global transaction processing platform that emphasizes high throughput, availability, and resiliency.
- Settlement: Overseeing the clearance, settlement, and dispute processes to ensure financial accuracy and compliance across systems.
- Platform Solutions: Allowing platform customers to create their own issuing services using Airwallex's APIs and white-label capabilities.

**In this role, you will**:
As a lead / manager software engineer, you will lead building the most technical elements of our issuing network with team management focus. While you do not have direct reports, you will be expected to demonstrate leadership through the quality of your engineering work. You will ensure that the way we build our solutions is of exceptional technical quality.

As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to:- Solve Complex, High - Scale Challenges - Tackle intricate, organization-wide problems by leveraging the latest technologies, including reactive programming, Temporal, vector databases, distributed systems, and advanced gateway solutions.- Drive Strategic Technological Excellence - Conduct comprehensive evaluations of emerging solutions and guide the company’s long-term architectural decisions to ensure scalability, efficiency, and global resilience.

On the Issuing Platform, you'll work on mission-critical systems, collaborate with top engineering talent, and leave a lasting impact on Airwallex’s global growth. If you're passionate about building transformative technology at scale, this is the team for you

This role is based in Singapore.

**Responsibilities**:
- You are a leader - Proven track record of managing and leading engineering teams in a dynamic environment, with an advantage given to experience in the fintech or accounting sectors.Striving for technical excellence through your coding and system design.- You are committed - you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do- You know APIs - from designing to building REST APIs- You are a team player
- Capable of effectively conveying technical and financial concepts to diverse audiences, fostering collaboration and understanding.Fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across regions.- You are a thought leader - Attracting other senior hires to the company through your knowledge sharing- You are a passionate problem solver - weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team

**Who you are**

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

**Minimum qualifications**:
- Have a career in Software Engineering with strong capabilities in modern programming languages like Java, Python or Go. and practiced both frontend and backend technologies.- Sophisticated level knowledge with design and delivery of Enterprise Grade software with streaming data solutions like Kafka.- 8+ years of experience in modern engineering practices as a manager (6+ years of experience as a lead) focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.
- 2+ years of leadership(Lead/Manager/Staff or above) experience mentoring a comm