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Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Airwallex· Engineering
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Hybrid (US - San Francisco)$163k - $279kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Growth Engineering at Airwallex is building an AI-native platform powering customer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion. The role focuses on defining technical architecture and building foundational systems powering Growth at scale, with emphasis on scalable backend infrastructure and AI-native capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and architecture for critical Growth Engineering platforms, influencing engineering decisions across multiple teams and leading complex initiatives from design through production.
  • Build scalable backend infrastructure, including high-performance APIs, distributed services, event-driven architectures, and real-time data processing systems that power growth automation and intelligent decision-making.
  • Develop AI-native platform capabilities that transform customer signals, product usage, lifecycle events, and business context into personalized experiences, next-best actions, and automated workflows.
  • Design for reliability and scale, establishing strong foundations for performance, fault tolerance, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Translate ambiguous business challenges into technical solutions, partnering with Product, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, and engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Elevate engineering excellence through architectural leadership, technical mentorship, thoughtful design reviews, and hands-on contributions to complex engineering problems.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience in backend development and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language, with solid computer science fundamentals, object-oriented design skills, and experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Spring Boot.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture, including domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, scalability, reliability, and modern engineering practices.
  • Proven Staff-level technical leadership, with a track record of driving complex, cross-team engineering initiatives, shaping architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers.
  • Strong ownership and execution skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality solutions from design through production operations.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsPythonJava/Kotlin

Benefits

  • Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices; benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements.
  • US-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, 20 paid vacation days, and 12 paid holidays per year.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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