Engineering Lead, Airwallex
Payments Platform
2-3 days a week in office
Cross-border payments for businesses
Job no longer available
Cross-border payments for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build global financial infrastructure and applications to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.
Role
Who you are
- We strongly value your experience in building, designing and engineering payment systems (gateway, acquiring, issuing or equivalent). If you don’t have them already, you will learn all the intricacies of the Visa and Mastercard payment platforms
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on low latency, distributed systems
- At least one year experience in managing teams
- 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
- Experience in designing and building REST APIs; High volume distributed systems; Kafka event streams; Distributed data storage systems (Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence or similar); GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc), docker and Kubernetes exposure; Javascript / Typescript
- Operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus
- Experience in building a payment gateway, acquiring platform or issuing platform
- Experience integrating Local Payment Methods (i.e. iDeal, Klarna, Trustly or equivalent) or Cards (i.e. Visa,
What the job involves
- As an Engineering lead, you will be responsible for working on a range of exciting initiatives across our international payments platform
- You will work closely with the payments product team and will be given the opportunity to interact with the partners engineering teams when required
- As part of our core acquiring payment team you are building the next generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure, and Merchant needs are always top of mind
- Within our payments team you will be delivering business outcomes not just product features, developing a number of REST services and integration components that provide capabilities to our React frontend via a backend microservices architecture
- The role will span a range of activities including designing and building new capabilities to support our product roadmap, architectural review of new and current solutions, reduction of tech debt and enhancements to improve operational effectiveness such as MTTD and MTTR
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Business is increasingly globalised, so there are many more companies selling to a broader base of international customers. These businesses need to be able to transfer foreign revenues back to their home currency, but this can be an expensive and time-consuming process. Airwallex exists to make this process painless and is aiming to disrupt the foreign exchange market for businesses the same way Transferwise did for consumers.
While it counts traditional banks as competitors, Airwallex stands out by its pricing, saving clients as much as 90% on foreign exchange rates vs. traditional banks. It also provides a range of financial solutions including corporate cards and expense management software, as well as a range of integrations into most commonly used accounting packages. This has seen its product adopted by over 20,000 corporate customers.
Founded in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, Airwallex has grown to be one of the leaders in fintech with a valuation exceeding $5 billion and a global reach. Recently focusing on the APAC region, the company has expanded into Singapore and Malaysia, in addition to its increasing its presence in Hong Kong and mainland China. Having experienced 100% year on year customer growth over 2022 off the back of impressive Series E funding, this focus seems to be paying off.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Oct 2022
$100m
SERIES E
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $902m
Company benefits
- 3 months “work from anywhere” per year
- On-site meals and snacks
- RSUs
Company values
- Customers First - Our customers are why we are here. Knowing them, keeping them and consistently delivering a superior experience is the only way we can fulfill our mission
- Obsessive Curiosity - We always start by asking why and seek to understand. We have a hunger for knowledge, seek challenges that are insatiably interesting and always consider if there are better ideas
- Inspire and Be Inspired - We are a melting pot of cultures and ideas, and we recognise that happy, healthy and highly-functioning teams are inclusive and diverse. We celebrate success, share knowledge, learn and grow together
- Intellectual Honesty - We want to constantly seek the truth, to be open, constructive and transparent, approaching every problem with data and facts, not conjecture and opinion
- Craftsmanship - We are about product and engineering excellence. We create products and solutions with passion, finesse and meticulous attention-to-detail to deliver the best customer experience and outcome
- Make Impact - The reason we show up every day is our desire to make an impact and create a better world with what we do. We have one purpose in mind - to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders and scale the digital economy
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Founders
Jack Zhang
(CEO)They have 8 years of experience as a developer, including roles at Aviva, Morgan Stanley and National Australia Bank. They are a Founder of Capital 49.
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