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Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

Airwallex· Engineering
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for leading one or more teams building and operating core issuing platform systems, including card lifecycle management, high-throughput transaction processing, and clearance, settlement, and dispute workflows. Focuses on team health, delivery, technical quality, and architectural guidance while remaining technically credible.

Responsibilities

  • Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams.
  • Build a strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
  • Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems.
  • Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
  • Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities.
  • Guide pragmatic technology and platform decisions that balance innovation, stability, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles.
  • Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, e.g. Kafka.
  • Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
  • Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipBackend developmentDistributed systems designEvent-driven architecturesRESTful APIsCloud & containers
Nice to have:Observability tooling
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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