Senior Backend Engineer, Spend Team (Cards)

About the role

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders. The Cards team at Airwallex builds and maintains distributed systems that enable businesses to issue debit cards and manage expenses at scale. The team addresses complex requirements around compliance, security, and the evolving needs of global users-supporting millions of seamless card transactions and ensuring robust, reliable expense management solutions for companies worldwide.

Responsibilities

• This role is based in Singapore.
• Design and implement scalable, secure backend services that power the Cards product.
• Contribute to the architecture and long-term technical vision of our backend systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of new features and improvements-from design to production.
• Write high-quality, testable code with attention to reliability and maintainability.
• Promote and uphold engineering best practices, including observability and API design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, infrastructure, and design.
• Provide technical mentorship and support the growth of other engineers on the team.

Requirements

• We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and building backend systems and APIs in production.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Proficient in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python).
• Solid understanding of REST API design and backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Strong focus on performance, reliability, and code quality.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).
• Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

Benefits

Additional Information

About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles . You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

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