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Staff Software Engineer, Lending Platform

Airwallex· Engineering
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and building secure, scalable lending platform systems, leading design reviews, and mentoring engineers. Focus on high-throughput, low-latency distributed services, APIs, and collaboration with Product, Risk, and Compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design reviews, shape systems architecture, and mentor engineers while raising the bar for code quality, technical excellence, and engineering practices.
  • Build resilient, high-throughput services that perform reliably at global enterprise scale, supported by strong testing, observability, monitoring, and operational discipline.
  • Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and other engineering teams to evolve the platform and support expansion into new financing products.
  • Own the technical foundations that enable secure, scalable lending services and APIs for enterprise clients and their users.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including modern engineering practices, continuous integration, and quality engineering.
  • At least 2 years in a technical leadership role, mentoring engineers and leading the definition and execution of engineering strategy.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and object-oriented programming skills, with proven experience building backend systems.
  • Strong experience with Java or Kotlin and the Spring or Spring Boot framework, or comparable backend technologies.
  • Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs, with a solid understanding of modern API design principles and tools.
  • Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures in production environments.
  • A proven track record designing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency, highly available distributed systems at scale.
  • Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree in CS/EngineeringSoftware engineering experienceTechnical leadershipJava or KotlinRESTful APIsDomain-driven design / event-driven architecturesDistributed systemsCloud + Docker + KubernetesObservability tools
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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