Senior Software Engineer, Productivity

(Senior) Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Productivity Team\

Hiring Location: Shanghai & 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:

As Airwallex's engineering capabilities continue to scale, our infrastructure teams are at the forefront of propelling us into a future of seamless global operations. Our seven specialized domain teams are not just technical powerhouses but the architects of innovation and efficiency, driving unparalleled engineer productivity and resource optimization.

• Tier-X Cloud Infrastructure owns our globally distributed service infrastructure for standard domain teams.
• Tier-0 Cloud Infrastructure specializes in building and maintaining critical product services which requires five-9s of availability or above.
• Productivity owns our CICD, testing and development tools for our software engineers
• Observability focuses on providing the best monitoring and alerting tools
• Data Infrastructure is tasked with providing our data engineering and analytics teams with the right tools.
• Database owns the multitude of different database solutions from SQL to Redis.
• Networking provides a reliable and secure cloud and hardware network infrastructure

Our teams work to provide the best possible experience for our developers and customers while providing a safe and secure environment to ensure that our financial solutions are always available.

In this role, you will:

1. Enhance Developer Productivity with AI : Utilize AI and machine learning to streamline developer workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve code quality.
2. Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and continuously enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to improve software delivery efficiency.
3. Multi-Tenant Test Environment Development: Architect and implement scalable, multi-tenant test environments to support automated testing and integration processes.
4. Automated Project Scaffolding: Develop and maintain project scaffolding tools to standardize development practices and accelerate project setup within the organization.
5. Custom IDE Plugin Development : Design and build IDE plugins to improve developer productivity, ensuring seamless integration with internal tools and workflows.
6. Internal Developer Platform : Develop and maintain an internal developer platform that enhances self-service capabilities, enabling engineers to work more efficiently.
7. Engineering Metrics & Insights : Build a comprehensive engineering metrics system to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement across the software development lifecycle.
8. Security Best Practices : Implement and enforce security best practices across CI/CD pipelines, test environments, and software development frameworks to ensure system integrity and compliance.
9. Cross-Team Collaboration & Technical Leadership: Partner with engineering teams, DevOps, and product managers to define best practices, drive adoption of developer tooling, and provide technical guidance.
10. Innovation & Emerging Technologies : Research, evaluate, and integrate emerging technologies to enhance developer productivity, streamline workflows, and reduce development friction.

You might be a great fit if you:

1. Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Rust, or Node.js and their corresponding frameworks;
2. Undergraduate and above in key colleges, computer science, and related majors;
3. Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise: Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Aliyun) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker)
4. Experience in developing code scaffolding tools and designing custom IDE plugins (e.g., JetBrains, Visual Studio Code) to enhance developer productivity.
5. Strong understanding of secure software development practices, including authentication, authorization, and vulnerability scanning in CI/CD and developer tooling.

Bonus if you have:

1. Experience with Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) : Background in building tools and frameworks specifically aimed at increasing software development efficiency.
2. Familiarity with Developer Experience (DevEx) Principles : Understanding of friction points in the software development lifecycle and strategies to enhance developer workflows.
3. Previous Contributions to Open Source Projects : Experience building open-source tools or contributing to developer tooling communities is a plus.

At Airwallex, you can 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 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.