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Engineering Director, Org & Identity

Airwallex· Engineering
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Engineering Director responsible for leading the strategy and execution for Airwallex’s core identity and organization foundations, including user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modeling, account ownership, and org-level workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction for highly available, scalable, and secure systems that provide a unified identity and organization foundation for Airwallex’s products.
  • Drive the translation of complex identity, security, and organizational requirements into reliable platform capabilities, partnering closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Onboarding.
  • Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
  • Raise the bar for engineering excellence across architecture, delivery, operational reliability, and security.
  • Balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability as the team evolves its platform foundations.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, account management, or other foundational platform capabilities.
  • Strong technical depth in designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
  • Experience setting technical strategy and translating ambiguous business, product, and security needs into clear engineering priorities.
  • A track record of building and developing high-performing engineering teams, including through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design.
  • Experience partnering effectively with product, design, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability.
  • Clear, direct communication and the ability to influence at both technical and executive levels.

Skills

Required:Identity managementDistributed systems designTechnical strategyPeople leadershipCross-functional collaborationCommunication
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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