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Senior Software Engineer, Productivity

Airwallex· Engineering
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Hybrid (US - Seattle)$158k - $245kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior backend-focused role within Airwallex's Infrastructure & Productivity team, focused on building internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-enabled tooling to improve engineer productivity across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance developer productivity by using AI and machine learning to streamline developer workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve code quality across the engineering organization.
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to increase software delivery efficiency, reduce build times, and improve deployment frequency.
  • Build and maintain scalable internal developer platforms and tooling, including messaging platforms, observability systems, and workflow automation tools used by engineering teams across Airwallex.
  • Drive infrastructure reliability and operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, incident management, on-call participation, and postmortems for P1/P2 incidents.
  • Partner with engineering teams across Airwallex to identify productivity bottlenecks, understand their needs, and deliver tooling that improves the developer experience.
  • Write clean, well-tested code, contribute to technical standards and documentation, and champion quality gates and change-management practices.

Qualifications

  • Experience with common design patterns and designing and developing large-scale, distributed, highly concurrent, highly loaded, and highly available systems.
  • Strong knowledge of server technologies, including the ability to optimize service response and data queries while solving for high concurrency and high availability.
  • Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js and their corresponding frameworks.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.
  • A track record of technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring across teams.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Aliyun, and infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Strong system design skills, with the ability to define and own the technical strategy for a team or domain while balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
  • Experience reviewing RFCs and providing deep insights on high-quality system designs.

Skills

Required:Design patterns for large-scale systemsBackend programmingCI/CDCloud & infra tooling

Benefits

  • US-based benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits, as well as 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid holidays per year (example details vary by location).
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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