About the job
About Airwallex
Airwallex is a revolutionary unified payments and financial platform designed specifically for global businesses. With an innovative blend of proprietary infrastructure and cutting-edge software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide—including industry leaders like Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN—with fully integrated solutions for managing business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance at a global scale.
Founded in Melbourne, our team comprises over 2,000 talented and innovative tech professionals spread across 26 offices worldwide. Valued at $8 billion and backed by premier investors such as T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is at the forefront of developing the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re prepared to engage in the most ambitious work of your career, we invite you to join us.
Attributes We Value
We seek builders with entrepreneurial spirit who desire tangible impact, accelerated learning, and genuine ownership. You will possess strong expertise relevant to the role and a sharp analytical mindset, motivated by our mission and operating principles. You will move quickly with sound judgment, explore deeply with curiosity, and make decisions based on first principles, balancing speed with thoroughness.
We value humility and collaboration as you transform innovative ideas into real products while ensuring effective execution from start to finish. Embracing AI as a tool to enhance productivity and accelerate problem-solving will be key. Here, you will confront complex, high-visibility challenges alongside exceptional colleagues and advance your career as we shape the future of global banking. If this resonates with you, let’s build what’s next together.
The Opportunity: Lead Our Onboarding Team
The Onboarding team is integral to Airwallex’s mission, playing a crucial role in facilitating our global expansion. We develop KYC and verification systems aimed at lowering entry barriers, enhancing compliance and security, and enabling our customers to grow internationally.
As the Engineering Lead, you will oversee both the technical vision and the leadership of the Onboarding team. You will collaborate across Product, Risk, Data, and Design to ensure we provide customer-centric solutions that foster global growth. Your responsibilities will include establishing technical direction and guiding a team of engineers to create scalable and secure onboarding infrastructure that empowers businesses worldwide.

