airwallex
Senior Software Engineer, Scale
At a Glance
- Location
- US - San Francisco, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Airwallex
- Posted
- 2026-03-17
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Banking
- Embedded Systems
- Energy
- Engineering
- Finance
- Regulatory
- SaaS
Requirements
Fintech, payments, or regulated industry experience
High-scale performance tuning (100k+ QPS, large user bases, strict latency SLAs)
Multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture background
Proficiency with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Experience with OAuth2.0, API design, or developer documentation
Cross-region deployment or data residency compliance experience
Compensation & Benefits
Build Something That Matters: Your work directly impacts how millions of people use financial services. Companies like Rippling and SHEIN rely on infrastructure you'll build. You're not just writing code—you're shaping how businesses embed finance.
Grow Beyond Engineering: You'll develop expertise that extends beyond technical skills: understanding customer business models, navigating regulatory landscapes, influencing enterprise sales. This is career growth that prepares you for technical leadership, product roles, or even founding your own company.
Join a World-Class Team: Work with exceptional engineers, product thinkers, and designers across the globe. At Airwallex, you'll be challenged, supported, and surrounded by people who are building something meaningful together.
About the Company
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.