Growth Engineering Lead — Scale & Impact

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology firm in Singapore is seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer. You will drive technical strategy, collaborate with Product and Design, and shape scalable architectures. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of backend engineering experience, particularly in distributed systems and modern JVM ecosystems, and is familiar with Docker and Kubernetes. This role offers significant impact in a fast-growing environment, focusing on user acquisition and market expansion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and high-availability architectures.
• Proficiency in modern JVM ecosystems including Java and Kotlin.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap, scope, and success metrics with Product and Design.
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for services and APIs.
• Drive strong delivery practices: planning, prioritisation, execution, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Java 17+

Kotlin

Spring / Spring Boot

Microservices architecture

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

GCP

AWS

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

A global payments technology firm in Singapore is seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer. You will drive technical strategy, collaborate with Product and Design, and shape scalable architectures. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of backend engineering experience, particularly in distributed systems and modern JVM ecosystems, and is familiar with Docker and Kubernetes. This role offers significant impact in a fast-growing environment, focusing on user acquisition and market expansion.