Engineering Lead / Manager, KYC (Relocation to Singapore)

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

How you'll make impact

Lead the engineering direction for KYC systems that make user onboarding safer, faster, and more efficient at scale.

• Build and improve automation and workflow systems that streamline registration approval and reduce manual effort for internal operations teams.

• Develop AI- and data-driven solutions to identify user risk and help prevent fraudulent or malicious activity.

• Partner closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver effective technical solutions.

• Raise the bar on architecture, reliability, performance, and engineering quality while mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers on the team.

You'll work from our Singapore office five days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong ability to understand complex business processes quickly and translate them into effective technical solutions.

• Strong organisational and communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and stakeholder groups.

• Solid software engineering skills, with experience in backend or frontend development using Kotlin, Java, React, or TypeScript.

• Hands-on experience building scalable, robust automation or workflow systems.

• A self-driven and proactive approach to identifying problems and driving improvements.

• Experience contributing to architectural discussions, code reviews, system reliability, performance, and scalability.

• The ability to mentor or guide engineers and act as a technical role model as the team grows.

Preferred

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, ideally as a team lead or project lead.

• Experience applying AI or machine learning to real-world problems, particularly automation or risk detection.

• Familiarity with automation and workflow tools in cloud environments, such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience working in fintech, payments, or a fast-growing technology environment.

• Familiarity with compliance, risk control, or user onboarding domains.

You'll thrive here if

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