Senior Backend Engineer, Global Issuing Platform

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments and financial platform is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Singapore. In this role, you will design and implement backend services for card issuing and transaction processing. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend development skills, and a focus on building reliable systems. You will collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality solutions and support system reliability. Competitive compensation and opportunities for growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services for card processing.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code focused on maintainability.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Backend development with Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python

Strong understanding of object-oriented design

Building and operating distributed systems

Event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka)

Designing and building RESTful APIs

Cloud experience (GCP/AWS)

Education

Bachelor degree in computer science or software engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability tooling (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus)

Job description

A global payments and financial platform is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Singapore. In this role, you will design and implement backend services for card issuing and transaction processing. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend development skills, and a focus on building reliable systems. You will collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality solutions and support system reliability. Competitive compensation and opportunities for growth are offered.