Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Based in San Francisco, Melbourne, or Sydney

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 base pay per year, plus potential equity and bonus

Company

Airwallex builds a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, combining proprietary infrastructure and software for accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Lead the development of AI tools and applications from inception through implementation.
• Build internal automation tools and applications that help employees create apps, dashboards, and workflow tools.
• Support incident response through threat-hunting, remediation, scanning, and other ad-hoc security tooling.
• Build, monitor, and maintain Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, data pipelines, and terabyte-scale log pipelines.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify automation opportunities and improve security through patching automation, gateways, and related services.
• Mentor Software Engineers and contribute to the growth of the engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience, including work with production codebases.
• Experience with at least one scripting language, such as Python, and one systems programming language, such as Golang or C/C++.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to work autonomously, deliver high-quality projects on time, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong curiosity, problem-solving ability, and willingness to investigate complex technical challenges.

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-growth technology company.
• Hands-on experience using AI to build applications.
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Founder-like ownership, autonomy, and focus on high-impact work.
• Collaborative environment with opportunities for accelerated learning and mentoring.
• US-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, disability and life insurance, and well-being benefits.
• US-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.
• Additional compensation may include equity, annual bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.