Engineering Manager, Growth

Airwallex Pty Ltd.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex Pty Ltd. is seeking a Growth/Engineering leader to shape and scale a high-performing engineering organization in San Francisco. The role focuses on talent strategy, leadership development, and cross-functional collaboration to drive product adoption and global expansion.

You will partner with Growth/Marketing, align with Compliance and Risk, and oversee performance and compensation processes to maintain velocity and ownership across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software/engineering orgs and building high-performing teams.
• Experience partnering with Growth/Marketing to drive product adoption and GTM ops.
• Experience running performance and compensation processes and fostering accountability in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the talent strategy for the organization: recruit, onboard, and develop engineers and managers; build a diverse, high-velocity team.
• Scale the engineering organization: set goals, create career paths, run performance and compensation processes, and foster ownership and excellence.
• Coach and grow your team with regular feedback, while supporting hiring and onboarding to scale sustainably.
• Drive cross-functional execution with Compliance/Legal, Risk, Operations, Support, and other engineering teams; communicate progress and business impact to executives.
• Foster collaboration with local/global engineering, infrastructure, and product teams; align technical direction with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership experience

Recruiting

Performance management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Communication

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 250,000 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

About the team

Our Growth Team sits at the heart of Airwallex's mission, focusing on user acquisition and strategic market expansion. We leverage data and cutting-edge technologies to craft seamless, intuitive experiences that help millions of users discover, engage with, and benefit from our products.

From new-user funnels to onboarding optimizations, our Growth team is all about experimentation, rapid iteration, and driving sustainable business impact. Whether it’s designing scalable architectures for high-traffic pages, building robust A/B testing frameworks, or integrating global marketing platforms, the Growth team’s contributions directly shape how we attract and retain customers worldwide.

Joining the Growth team means you'll have a front-row seat to the most crucial stage of our product lifecycle and play a pivotal role in fueling the next wave of our global expansion.

What You'll Do

Lead the talent strategy for your organization by recruiting, onboarding, and developing top-tier engineers and managers, building a diverse team with robust succession plans for sustained velocity. Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization by setting goals, establishing career paths, running performance and compensation processes, and cultivating a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence. Coach and grow your team through regular feedback, performance management, and career development plans, while supporting hiring and onboarding to scale sustainably. Drive cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal, Risk, Operations, Support, and other engineering teams, effectively communicating progress, insights, and business impact to executive leadership and key partners across the company. Foster strong collaboration between your team and local/global engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, while providing strategic leadership for a mission-critical platform — aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams (small to mid-sized).

• Proven ability to recruit, onboard, and develop top-tier engineers, including building succession plans and career ladders.

• Experience running performance and compensation processes and fostering an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make technical tradeoffs, and align engineering efforts with business objectives and success metrics.

• Excellent skills in translating technical concepts for stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Executive leadership.

• Track record of building API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.

Who You Are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience partnering with Growth/Marketing teams to solve end-to-end GTM operations and drive product adoption.

• Experience identifying opportunities to leverage AI for user acquisition, churn prediction, or personalized customer journeys.

• Track record of building new products or teams from scratch and scaling them as adoption grows.

• Knowledge of data warehousing, customer segmentation, and analytics tools to drive decision-making.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience within the financial domain.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).

• Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.

• Experience thriving in a complex environment.

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.