About the job
About Airwallex
Airwallex stands as the premier unified payments and financial platform tailored for global enterprises. Our innovative blend of proprietary infrastructure and software enables over 200,000 businesses globally—including esteemed names like Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN—to seamlessly manage everything from business accounts and payments to spend management and treasury, all while facilitating embedded finance on a grand scale.
Founded in Melbourne, our team comprises over 2,000 of the brightest minds in technology, operating across 26 offices worldwide. With a valuation of US$8 billion and support from top-tier 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 revolutionizing the global payments and financial services landscape. If you’re prepared to embark on the most ambitious journey of your career, come join us.
Attributes We Value
We seek out dynamic builders with an entrepreneurial spirit who desire meaningful impact, rapid learning, and true ownership of their work. You should possess strong technical expertise and keen analytical skills, and be driven by our mission and operating principles. Your speed and sound judgment, paired with an insatiable curiosity, will empower you to make decisions grounded in first principles, effectively balancing pace with thoroughness.
Collaboration and humility are key; you will transform innovative concepts into tangible products, executing projects from inception to completion. Leveraging AI, you will optimize your workflow and expedite problem-solving. Here, you will engage with complex, high-stakes challenges alongside exceptional colleagues, fostering your professional growth as we shape the future of global banking. If this resonates with you, let’s create what comes next.
Who You Are & Role Overview
As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will be pivotal in designing Airwallex’s next-generation foundational infrastructure. We are advancing beyond conventional pipelines to establish a robust, distributed ecosystem that facilitates real-time AI enablement and global financial data management.
Our goal is to redefine the limits of distributed storage, stream processing, and service-layer interfaces. We are in search of 'Engineers’ Engineers'—visionaries who relish delving into the intricacies of distributed systems, enhancing JVM performance, and implementing resilient architectural frameworks such as Lakehouse and real-time data.

