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Staff Software Engineer, Business Accounts

Airwallex· Engineering
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AU - SydneyFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Business Accounts team to build the intelligent orchestration layer for Airwallex’s business account ecosystem, connecting Cash, Yield, Lending, and broader product surfaces into a unified financial experience for businesses. Based in Sydney, responsible for architecture, end-to-end delivery of core investment workflows, and maintaining mission-critical financial infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the architecture and long-term technical vision of our backend systems, helping define the engineering strategy and framework selection for the Yield squad.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of core investment workflows, including client signup, investment, and redemption processes—from design to production.
  • Build and maintain mission-critical financial infrastructure, such as reconciliation controls, unit registries, and investment ledgers.
  • Write high-quality, testable code with a focus on reliability and maintainability, ensuring seamless integration with our external investment providers.
  • Promote and uphold engineering best practices, with a strong emphasis on observability, API design, and robust integration rails.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Infrastructure, and Design to ensure our product delivers the best possible experience for businesses.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor degree or above in computer science or software engineering related majors.
  • Experience solving distributed systems challenges - scalability, consistency, latency.
  • Mastery of backend technologies; using Kotlin w/ vert.x, Temporal & Kafka.
  • Experience working with automated tests and quality control processes.
  • Cloud technologies experience with GCP or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringKotlinDistributed systemsCloud platformsObservability tooling
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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