Director of Payments Platform Engineering

Airwallex; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Payments Platform engineering teams, defining the end-to-end strategy, architecture, and delivery ownership. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.

This role can be based in Singapore, United Kingdom and San Francisco, United States, with cross‑regional collaboration to scale payments globally while maintaining reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in leadership.
• Experience managing Engineering Managers or Leads.
• Strong product thinking and collaboration with Product Management.
• Deep fluency in software architecture for large-scale, complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Payments Platform vision: end-to-end strategy, architecture, and roadmap for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations.
• Lead and grow an engineering organization: manage and develop Engineering Managers and senior engineers across squads.
• Drive technical architecture and platform excellence: set standards for reliability, observability, security, and scalability.
• Deliver with speed and operational rigor: set OKRs and balance short-term delivery with long-term investments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align technology with business outcomes: work with Product, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, and regional leaders.

Skills

Leadership

Software architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Fintech domain experience

Tools

Distributed systems

Observability

Security

Job description

Airwallex is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Payments Platform engineering teams, defining the end-to-end strategy, architecture, and delivery ownership. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.

This role can be based in Singapore, United Kingdom and San Francisco, United States, with cross‑regional collaboration to scale payments globally while maintaining reliability, security, and developer productivity.