Engineering Manager, GTPN Platform (Seoul)

Airwallex; United States; Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Airwallex is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the architecture, development, and operation of platform systems for global treasury and payments. You will manage a high-performing engineering team, driving reliability, scalability, and execution quality across distributed hubs in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

You’ll collaborate with product and stakeholders to align capabilities with customer and business needs, participate in design reviews, and uphold high standards of

Formación

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering and system architecture background.
• 10+ years of experience in modern engineering environments.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Java, Kotlin, C++, Python.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and execution skills.
• High ownership, sound prioritisation, and adaptability in fast-paced environments.

Responsabilidades

• Set technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and deliver scalable, reliable services.
• Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape platform strategy.
• Contribute to code reviews, problem-solving, and high-quality engineering work.
• Use data and system insights to improve platform performance and reliability.
• Lead design reviews for platform-wide changes across multiple hubs.

Conocimientos

Engineering leadership

System architecture

Java/Kotlin/C++/Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical judgment

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Ownership and prioritization

Educación

Bachelors in CS/Software Engineering or related field

Herramientas

Spring / Spring Boot

JVM ecosystems

Descripción del empleo

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

How you'll make impact

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the architecture, development, and operation of platform systems that support Airwallex’s global treasury and payment products. You’ll manage and develop a high-performing engineering team, strengthening team health, execution quality, and long-term technical outcomes.

• Set technical direction, guide key architectural decisions, and deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing services.

• Partner closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape platform strategy, prioritise effectively, and deliver capabilities aligned with customer and business needs.

• Contribute to code reviews, technical problem-solving, and critical implementation work where needed, while maintaining high standards for engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Use data and system insights to improve platform performance, reliability, and team effectiveness.

• Set technical direction across a distributed engineering team by leading design reviews for platform-wide changes, collaborating with engineering hubs across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

You’ll work from our Seoul office five days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong software engineering and system architecture background, with 10+ years of experience in modern engineering environments.

• Strong programming or scripting skills in a language such as Java, Kotlin, C++, Python or a similar language.

• Strong technical judgment and experience guiding teams building scalable, reliable systems.

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and execution skills.

• High ownership, sound prioritisation, and adaptability in fast-paced environments.

• A data-driven, customer-aware, and quality-focused approach.

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains.

• Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot.

• Prior experience leading teams responsible for high-availability, low-latency systems.

• Track record of leading complex, ambiguous technical initiatives from design through delivery and operation.

You'll thrive here if

• You’re comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.

• You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.

• You’re comfortable acting as a bridge between the local team and our global colleagues, sharing context clearly and helping both sides work effectively as one team.

• You say what you mean. You’re direct, but you lead with respect.

• You can connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.

Learn more about your team

The Global Treasury and Payment Network (GTPN) team sits at the heart of Airwallex’s payment infrastructure. As one of our foundational businesses and a major contributor to our growth, we build and operate the core treasury and payment infrastructure that powers our global financial products. We operate at the intersection of global financial infrastructure and modern product innovation, expanding the reach and capabilities of our treasury and payment network, strengthening reliability and resilience, and building innovative payment products at global scale. We’re a distributed engineering team, with talented engineers across established and emerging hubs around the world. As we continue to expand, you’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build and evolve products and platforms that solve complex financial problems and support businesses around the world.

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.