Staff Software Engineer — Global Payments Platform

Airwallex; United States; Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 250.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Airwallex in the United States is seeking an experienced software architect to help design and operate distributed payment systems at scale. You will influence core infrastructure across real-time clearing, settlement, and routing in 150+ countries.

You will own reliability and observability, define SLAs, and lead design reviews with teams across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. A strong background in Java/Kotlin and JVM ecosystems is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production software, including distributed systems.
• Strong system architecture skills for fault tolerance, idempotency, asynchronous workflows, reconciliation, settlement, and failure recovery.
• Experience owning reliability for critical systems, including defining SLAs, designing graceful degradation, building observability, and leading incident response.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Java, Kotlin, C++, Python or a similar language.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams through design reviews, RFCs, and architecture decisions.
• Strong analytical skills using operational and product data to guide technical decisions.

Aufgaben

• Architect distributed payment systems at global scale, designing and evolving core infrastructure across real-time local clearing, SWIFT, and proprietary treasury routing in 150+ countries.
• Solve complex financial integrity problems by building idempotent, fault-tolerant systems for multi-currency reconciliation, asynchronous settlement, and compensation logic across unreliable banking partners.
• Own the reliability and observability of the payment network by defining SLAs, designing for graceful degradation during partner outages, and building real-time payment health monitoring.
• Use payment telemetry to optimise routing, identify bottlenecks, and measure how infrastructure changes affect settlement speed and conversion.
• 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.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

System architecture

Reliability engineering

SLAs and observability

Programming: Java/Python/Kotlin/C++

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Technical leadership across teams

Data-driven decision making

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Spring Boot

Java/Kotlin on JVM

Jobbeschreibung

Airwallex in the United States is seeking an experienced software architect to help design and operate distributed payment systems at scale. You will influence core infrastructure across real-time clearing, settlement, and routing in 150+ countries.

You will own reliability and observability, define SLAs, and lead design reviews with teams across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. A strong background in Java/Kotlin and JVM ecosystems is preferred.