Senior Fullstack Engineer, Scale

Airwallex; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in London is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to own the frontend work for the Scale team. You will design, implement, and maintain user-facing experiences across our platform products, collaborating with backend, Product, and Design to turn requirements into reliable solutions.

You will work from the London office three days a week, with a hybrid schedule that balances autonomy and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong frontend experience with ReactJS and modern JS/TS.
• Ability to own frontend work end to end across stacks.
• Proven independent delivery with minimal oversight.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to balance performance with business velocity.
• Experience in cross-functional environments with Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales Design.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend work for the Scale team; design, implement, maintain user-facing experiences.
• Collaborate with backend, Product and Design to translate requirements into solutions.
• Build and maintain frontend experiences across the stack with React-based development.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing flexibility, simplicity and maintainability.

Skills

ReactJS

JavaScript/TypeScript

Full stack ownership

Independent delivery

Communication

Performance trade-offs

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

How you'll make impact

Own the frontend work for the Scale team, taking responsibility for the design, implementation, and ongoing quality of user-facing experiences across our platform products. You'll work independently on ambiguous problems, partnering with backend engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn customer and business requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions. Build and maintain frontend experiences across the stack, with particular ownership and depth in React-based development Deliver reliable, maintainable solutions for multi-tenant platforms, enterprise integrations, and cross-domain product features Partner with backend engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn customer and business requirements into effective technical solutions Make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous situations, balancing flexibility, simplicity, and maintainability in system and component design You'll work from our London office three days a week.

Essentials

• Strong experience building frontend applications with ReactJS.
• Experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience working across the full stack, with the ability to own frontend work end to end.
• A track record of working independently and delivering high-quality software with minimal oversight.
• The ability to make pragmatic technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Make pragmatic decisions on when to optimize for performance vs. velocity based on business impact
• Thrive in cross-functional environments spanning Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales Design for scale, maintainability, and production excellence

Preferred

• 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.
• Solutions engineering or customer-facing technical experience.

Learn more about your team

The Scale team builds the infrastructure that lets platforms embed Airwallex financial products at speed and with confidence. The team owns multi-tenant systems powering companies like Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. The engineering challenges are real: balancing tenant isolation with resource efficiency, low-latency performance with cross-data-center resilience, and immediate customer needs with long-term architectural extensibility. Beyond infrastructure, the team owns cross-domain product features and designs enterprise integrations by translating customer business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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 an