Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform, to lead one or more teams building core issuing systems including card lifecycle management and high-throughput processing. You will balance delivery ownership with long-term technical quality while staying technically credible at an architectural level.

The role is in-office in Singapore, five days a week, requiring strong collaboration with product, operations, and other engineering leaders to ensure reliability and cost efficiency

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a people leadership role.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong background in modern backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, production systems.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
• Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead the execution of technical and delivery strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own team health, execution, and long-term technical quality across one or more engineering teams.
• Build strong engineering culture through coaching, feedback, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
• Drive technical direction and architectural guidance for scalable, resilient transaction-processing systems.
• Improve system design, code quality, testing, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Partner with product, operations, senior engineers, and other engineering leaders to align technical and delivery strategy with business priorities.

Skills

Senior leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Cloud & containers

Kafka

Observability tooling

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelors in CS/SE or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Airwallex is seeking an Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform, to lead one or more teams building core issuing systems including card lifecycle management and high-throughput processing. You will balance delivery ownership with long-term technical quality while staying technically credible at an architectural level.

The role is in-office in Singapore, five days a week, requiring strong collaboration with product, operations, and other engineering leaders to ensure reliability and cost efficiency