Staff Software Engineer, Productivity

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

Airwallex’s global engineering organization relies on strong developer platforms to move quickly, ship high-quality software, and operate efficiently. You’ll lead the technical strategy and delivery of the productivity systems that make that possible.

• Lead the technical strategy and delivery of developer productivity platforms that help Airwallex’s global engineering organization move faster, ship higher-quality software, and operate more efficiently.

• Identify productivity bottlenecks with feature teams, then design and build scalable solutions across developer tooling, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, messaging, and workflow automation.

• Define and drive an AI-powered developer productivity strategy, evaluating and deploying solutions such as AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent build optimization, and agent-based root-cause analysis.

• Set the technical bar across the Infrastructure & Productivity domain by shaping architecture, reviewing RFCs, establishing engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.

• Partner with engineers, SREs, and stakeholders across Airwallex to measure and improve developer experience through signals such as build times, deployment frequency, deployment reliability, and developer satisfaction.

You'll work from our Seattle office three days a week.

What we're looking for

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