Engineering Lead, Scale
Core
Lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex's embedded finance products, combining people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead (Backend/Platform)
Builds
Multi-tenant infrastructure, cross-domain product features (tax, compliance, monetization), and scalable technical solutions for enterprise customers.
Domain
Fintech, Global Payments, Embedded Finance
Required skills
People leadership, backend development (Java/Spring Boot), large-scale distributed systems design, system design, object-oriented design, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Fintech/payments domain experience, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS/GCP, API design, OAuth 2.0
Responsibilities
Manage and coach a team of engineers, set technical direction for scalable backend systems, ensure high standards for system design and code quality, drive improvements in reliability and observability, work cross-functionally with product and business leaders, translate enterprise requirements into technical solutions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
