Engineering Director, Infrastructure

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

**About Airwallex**

Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech transforming the way
- businesses move and manage money domestically and internationally.

In today’s fast-changing digital era, our purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow in their
- own markets and around the world, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With
- technology at our core, we built a proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help
- businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+
- currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.

In just five years since we were founded, Airwallex has grown to become Australia’s fastest-growing
- fintech unicorn and a well-funded international technology leader backed by world-leading investors.
- Our leadership, innovation, and scale have been recognized and awarded by leading independent
- authorities, such as listing in Forbes' Cloud 100 2021 and placing in the Top 50 of KPMG’s Global
- Fintech100 three years in a row.

To support our ambitious growth plans, we’re looking to expand our global teams with smart, driven,
- and passionate individuals who are excited about joining our rocketship and taking on the challenge of
- a lifetime.

**Work Location**: Shanghai/Singapore/Australia

**The Role**:

- As the Engineering Director in Airwallex’s Global Infrastructure team, you will oversee a number of
- feature teams across Engineering Productivity, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Safety &
- Compliance, and you will be responsible for the delivery and engineering quality of those teams.
- While you are a technically strong engineer who is still passionate about Engineering, your leadership
- skills, product thinking, and business acumen are what really set you apart.
- You will be accountable for the overall quality and delivery of multiple engineering streamlines. You
- will be the one clearing road blockers, providing context and guidance to the teams, and will know
- when to escalate.
- This role will work with key stakeholders across the globe and will manage Engineers globally to
- define the tech vision of the business domain.
- Responsibilities：
- You are a leader
- with 7+ year’s experience leading a high powered engineering team
- You are committed - you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you
- do
- You are a team player
- you enjoy working in a collaborative environment with smart and
- innovative people
- You are naturally curious
- always asking why and suggesting new ways to do things
- You are a passionate problem solver - You love digging deep and brainstorming with
- colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem
- Qualifications：
- 10+ years working in modern engineering practices focused on Developer Tools, SRE, Cloud
- Infra, Productivity, Continuous Integration, and Quality Engineering
- Previous people management experience (managing managers is a plus)
- Strong computer science fundamentals. While we do not mind what language you have most
- recently been using we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot
- Exposure to working on high volume distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with architecture design/System design
- GCP experience is preferred, but AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc) with Docker and
- Kubernetes is great too
- Flexibility to work across global time zones required
- Previous experience in FinTech/Payment is a plus

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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 colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a dis