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Staff Software Engineer, Lending

Airwallex· Engineering
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Architect, design, and build secure, scalable systems that power Airwallex’s lending platform, enabling compliant credit experiences for enterprise clients and users; lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive reliable, observable, high-performance backend services and APIs for embedded credit products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design reviews, advise on systems architecture, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for code quality and technical excellence.
  • Champion resilient distributed-systems design, automated testing, observability, and engineering practices that improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and delivery efficiency.
  • Build and maintain secure, scalable, well-documented APIs that enable clients to embed and consume credit products within their own offerings.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver effective lending solutions and support the platform’s continued expansion into new financing products.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Seven or more years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong exposure to modern engineering practices, continuous integration, and quality engineering.
  • At least two years in a technical leadership role, mentoring engineers and leading the definition and execution of engineering strategy.
  • Strong computer science foundations and object-oriented programming skills, with proven experience building backend systems (Java or Kotlin with Spring / Spring Boot preferred).
  • Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs, with familiarity with modern API design principles and tools.
  • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures in production environments.
  • Proven track record of designing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency, highly available distributed systems at scale.
  • Cloud experience with GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront), plus Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  • Experience leading technical direction, making sound architectural trade-offs, and partnering effectively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Required:Java/KotlinRESTful API designDomain-driven designEvent-driven architectureDistributed systemsCloud platformsDocker & KubernetesObservability/tools
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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