Airwallex Hiring for Senior Software Engineer Job at Sydney, Australia

Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech business transforming the way businesses move and manage money globally. We have built a global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.

Airwallex is Australia’s fastest growing fintech unicorn. We’ve grown to 13 global locations and have raised over $700 million in funding. Airwallex has been recognised in Forbes’ Cloud 100 2020, and placed in the Top 50 of KPMG’s Global Fintech100 two years in a row. To support our ambitious growth plans, we’re looking for smart, collaborative and passionate people who are looking to make a genuine impact.

As a senior engineer, you will lead building the most technical elements of our payments network. While you do not have direct reports, you will be expected to demonstrate leadership through the quality of your engineering work. In conjunction with your teams Staff Engineer, you will ensure that the way we build our solutions is of exceptional technical quality.

Our core banking and issuing engineering team take ownership of the technical construction of key Airwallex systems. These systems span several products including b2b wallets, payment acceptance, credit card issuing, treasury management, FX and this list continues to expand. Through our platform team you will be responsible for supporting key systems to both our front end web/mobile application team and support the integration of our platform solution, direct to customer, via an API.

This role will see you making contributions to technologies and libraries that we depend on while leading the refactoring of complex systems and components. Your exceptional technical capability will enable you to

Who you are:

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  You are a leader– striving for technical excellence through your coding and system design
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  You are committed – you strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do
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  You know API’s – from designing to building REST APIs
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  You are team player– fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across regions
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  You are a thought leader – Attracting other senior hires to the company through your knowledge sharing
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  You are a passionate problem solver – weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team

What you’ll bring:

• 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
• Evidence of working on high volume distributed systems
• Hands on experience with event driven architectures
• Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront etc) with docker and Kubernetes
• Operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus

If this sounds like something you would be keen to hear more about, hit apply.

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 (in the form of stock options).

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, encourage flexible/remote working and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

If this role has sparked your curiosity – hit APPLY now.