Airwallex
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end to end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. About the Team The Scale engineering team at Airwallex builds the foundational systems that power our embedded finance platform at global scale. The team owns multi tenant infrastructure, drives cross domain product capabilities, and helps design technical solutions for enterprise customers. Key areas of ownership include: Embedded Finance Platform: Build and maintain the infrastructure powering customers like Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN, with strong SLAs for availability, latency, and throughput. Cross Domain Product Features: Own complex features that span business, regulatory, and technical domains, such as tax, compliance, and monetization. Solutions Architecture: Translate enterprise customer requirements into scalable technical solutions that support major commercial opportunities. What you'll do As an Engineering Lead, Scale, you will lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex's embedded finance products. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership. You will manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and involved at an architectural level, your focus is enabling the team to do its best work. Responsibilities Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development. Set technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design. Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity. Work cross functionally with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities. Help translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions. Minimum qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1+ years in a people leadership role. Strong backend development experience with Java/Spring Boot. Proven experience designing and operating large scale, distributed production systems. Strong system design and object oriented design fundamentals. Ability to balance abstraction, simplicity, and speed in technical decision making. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution. Preferred qualifications Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains. Experience with multi tenant SaaS or platform architecture. Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP. Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer facing platforms. Exposure to cross region deployment, data residency, or customer facing technical architecture. Compensation Range: £100,000 - £150,000 + bonus + RSU Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end to end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. About the Team The Scale engineering team at Airwallex builds the foundational systems that power our embedded finance platform at global scale. The team owns multi tenant infrastructure, drives cross domain product capabilities, and helps design technical solutions for enterprise customers. Key areas of ownership include: Embedded Finance Platform: Build and maintain the infrastructure powering customers like Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN, with strong SLAs for availability, latency, and throughput. Cross Domain Product Features: Own complex features that span business, regulatory, and technical domains, such as tax, compliance, and monetization. Solutions Architecture: Translate enterprise customer requirements into scalable technical solutions that support major commercial opportunities. What you'll do As an Engineering Lead, Scale, you will lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex's embedded finance products. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership. You will manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and involved at an architectural level, your focus is enabling the team to do its best work. Responsibilities Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development. Set technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design. Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity. Work cross functionally with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities. Help translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions. Minimum qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1+ years in a people leadership role. Strong backend development experience with Java/Spring Boot. Proven experience designing and operating large scale, distributed production systems. Strong system design and object oriented design fundamentals. Ability to balance abstraction, simplicity, and speed in technical decision making. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution. Preferred qualifications Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains. Experience with multi tenant SaaS or platform architecture. Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP. Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer facing platforms. Exposure to cross region deployment, data residency, or customer facing technical architecture. Compensation Range: £100,000 - £150,000 + bonus + RSU Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Airwallex
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end to end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. As our Transaction Monitoring Lead in EMEA, you will be responsible for our first line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex's product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk. We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions. You Are: A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you Process driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well documented workflows A team player who can also work independently A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem You ask the right questions and make risk based decisions What you will be doing: Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules Analyse and investigate patterns and trends Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures Take a data driven approach to problem solving Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members What you will bring: Bachelor's degree or equivalent 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred Process oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well honed written and verbal communications Bank or fintech experience strongly preferred Proven track record of managing personal performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions People leadership experience - experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end to end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. As our Transaction Monitoring Lead in EMEA, you will be responsible for our first line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex's product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk. We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions. You Are: A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you Process driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well documented workflows A team player who can also work independently A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem You ask the right questions and make risk based decisions What you will be doing: Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules Analyse and investigate patterns and trends Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures Take a data driven approach to problem solving Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members What you will bring: Bachelor's degree or equivalent 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred Process oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well honed written and verbal communications Bank or fintech experience strongly preferred Proven track record of managing personal performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions People leadership experience - experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Airwallex
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. About the team The Operations team at Airwallex ensures the smooth and efficient functioning of our services and processes. We focus on optimizing workflows, improving operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional customer support. By streamlining operations and implementing best practices, we help drive the company's growth and maintain high service standards. Our team is dedicated to providing a seamless experience for our customers and supporting Airwallex's mission to empower businesses globally. What you'll do As part of our Operations Strategy team, you'll be tackling complex problems across many different domains, with the overarching aim to improve customer experience in EMEA. You are a self-starter and independent thinker with exceptional analytical and communication skills, capable of owning work streams that will drive the evolution of our business. This role is based in London. Responsibilities: Identify and drive strategic projects to improve our customer experience Lead important initiatives to uplift the day to day work of our operational functions Take a data driven approach to problem solving Work across functions to ensure stakeholder alignment and deliver desired outcomes Prepare and update materials covering project progress, highlighting progress towards goals, key risks and dependencies Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues identified by leadership or functional teams Who you are We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory. Minimum qualifications: 7+ years of experience, preferably with a fast growing tech startup or top tier strategy/management consulting or equivalent Strong analytical skills, with proficiency in SQL/R/Python; any BI tools will be an advantage. Strong analytical and problem solving skills essential Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Airwallex 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. About the team The Operations team at Airwallex ensures the smooth and efficient functioning of our services and processes. We focus on optimizing workflows, improving operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional customer support. By streamlining operations and implementing best practices, we help drive the company's growth and maintain high service standards. Our team is dedicated to providing a seamless experience for our customers and supporting Airwallex's mission to empower businesses globally. What you'll do As part of our Operations Strategy team, you'll be tackling complex problems across many different domains, with the overarching aim to improve customer experience in EMEA. You are a self-starter and independent thinker with exceptional analytical and communication skills, capable of owning work streams that will drive the evolution of our business. This role is based in London. Responsibilities: Identify and drive strategic projects to improve our customer experience Lead important initiatives to uplift the day to day work of our operational functions Take a data driven approach to problem solving Work across functions to ensure stakeholder alignment and deliver desired outcomes Prepare and update materials covering project progress, highlighting progress towards goals, key risks and dependencies Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues identified by leadership or functional teams Who you are We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory. Minimum qualifications: 7+ years of experience, preferably with a fast growing tech startup or top tier strategy/management consulting or equivalent Strong analytical skills, with proficiency in SQL/R/Python; any BI tools will be an advantage. Strong analytical and problem solving skills essential Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.