Staff Software Engineer, Frontend - Onboarding

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global fintech company in Singapore is seeking a skilled frontend developer to join their onboarding team. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience with front-end architecture and is proficient in React and TypeScript. This role offers an opportunity to work on scalable financial web systems and contribute to a transforming platform in the fintech landscape, ensuring high standards of compliance and security.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• More than 5 years of front-end development experience.
• Experience in developing large-scale financial web systems.
• Proficient in modern JavaScript frameworks like React, VUE, Angular.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality products using the latest technologies.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance product features.
• Develop public APIs and JavaScript SDKs.

Skills

Front-end development

React

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apollo GraphQL

Webpack

Node.js

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

The Opportunity: Be Part of Our Onboarding Team

Onboarding team plays a pivotal role in Airwallex's mission by facilitating the rapid integration of businesses into our platform. As a data-driven team, we utilize extensive analytics to refine our processes and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations. Our primary mission involves performing Know Your Customer (KYC) and risk-based operations to maintain the highest standards of compliance and security as we handle sensitive financial data, and empower business customers through robust, secure, and intuitive user and account management solutions.

This team is instrumental in our regional expansion, helping to onboard a growing number of customers into new markets. By supporting global expansion, we are also tasked with increasing the coverage of our product offerings, ensuring that businesses worldwide can benefit from our innovative financial solutions. Through our efforts, we aim to streamline the onboarding process, reduce barriers to entry, and foster a secure and compliant environment that empowers businesses to thrive in the digital economy.

Responsibilities

• Coding with the latest version of React and Typescript to build high-quality products
• Build micro FE web applications with domain-based design architecture and seamless integrate by using a single SPA framework and best practices
• Leverage Apollo GraphQL as the backend for frontend(BFF) to build scalable and high-performance node service with simple and contact-based integration with backend
• Cooperate with the design team to build a design system and common components, provide universal UI / UX experience across different domain teams, benchmark material-ui and ant design
• Deliver NPM package and library widgets with open source project to easy client integration
• Leverage GCP & Aliyun K8S / Bucket CDN and Cloudflare to deploy micro FE and node.js service with GitLab CICD best practices
• Adopt React testing library/test render / cypress to design high-quality unit test and e2e test with 80%+ coverage
• Using contentful and next.js to build nocode / serverless CMS system for corpsite & branding landing pages

Qualifications

• More than 5 years of front-end development experience and more than 2 years of front-end architecture experience
• Have experience in developing large-scale financial web systems
• Computer or related major, bachelor degree or above
• Proficient in HTML5 / CSS3 / ECMAScript 6 + / TypeScript
• Proficient in React, VUE, Angular and corresponding technology stack
• Emotion, Styled-Component, SCSS
• Familiar with Material UI, Ant Design, Bootstrap 3 or other CSS frameworks
• Familiar with HTTP (s) protocol and RESTful specifications
• Webpack, Polyfill, Rollup.js
• Familiar with building BFF using node.js

What You\'ll Do

• Develop and Optimize: Engineer sophisticated, scalable software solutions crucial for customer account setup and activation.
• Collaborate and Refine: Work closely with Product Management, Design, and Operations to enhance product features, ensuring our platform exceeds customer expectations and maintains regulatory compliance.
• Innovate and Implement: Use your sharp product insight to validate and evolve product requirements, integrating robust, data-driven feedback mechanisms into our systems.
• Lead Technological Integration: Craft and refine public APIs and JavaScript SDKs that are easy to integrate by customers.
• Decision Making: Apply solid engineering principles and effective decision-making skills in a fast-paced environment to deliver solutions that align with business goals.
• Ensure Security Awareness: Develop a keen sense of security to build products that earn customer trust and effectively combat threats from bad actors. Implement security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to safeguard sensitive customer data and transactions.

Who You Are

• Knowledgeable and Skilled: You bring a solid foundation in software engineering, with expertise in Java or Kotlin for backend roles, and React or TypeScript for frontend roles.
• Analytical and Data-Driven: You leverage data to make informed decisions that enhance user satisfaction and product effectiveness.
• Empathetic and Insightful: You possess a deep understanding of customer needs, which guides your approach to software development.
• A Collaborative Team Player: You thrive in a team environment, readily sharing knowledge and embracing diverse perspectives to achieve collective goals.
• Adaptable and Continuously Learning: You are eager to learn new skills and technologies, adapting quickly to changes in the fintech landscape.
• Proactive with Strong Drive: You take ownership of your projects and are motivated to deliver solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Security-Conscious: You have a strong focus on security, particularly in protecting user data and preventing unauthorized access. Your skills in security practices are crucial in fighting against impersonations and account takeovers.

Why Join Us

• Impact: Contribute to a platform that is transforming the fintech landscape and supporting thousands of businesses worldwide.
• Growth: Advance your career with opportunities to lead projects and initiatives in an environment that supports your professional development.
• Innovation: Work with the latest technologies and be part of a culture that dares to challenge the status quo.
• Culture: Join a team that values transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration.
• Benefits: Enjoy competitive salaries, comprehensive health benefits, and a flexible work environment that respects work-life balance.

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 and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.