Engineering Lead, Airwallex

Payments Platform

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Java

Kafka

Kotlin

Cassandra

ELK

Prometheus

Spring

RDS

Oracle

REST API

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Amsterdam

2-3 days a week in office

Cross-border payments for businesses

Job no longer available

Cross-border payments for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BBankingForeign exchangeFinancial Services

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Java

Kafka

Kotlin

Cassandra

ELK

Prometheus

Spring

RDS

Oracle

REST API

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Amsterdam

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BBankingForeign exchangeFinancial Services

Company mission

To build global financial infrastructure and applications to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.

Job

Company

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

Our take

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

36% female employees

11% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Trustpilot (3.7)

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 HQ

Fitzrovia, London, UK

Leadership

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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