Engineering Lead / Manager (Fintech)

Location: Singapore

Company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system providing global payments infrastructure and financial products for businesses.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automation tools and workflow systems for internal operations and customer onboarding.
• Develop AI and data-driven solutions to predict user risk and prevent fraudulent or malicious activity.
• Collaborate with product, operations, compliance, and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute as a technical role model as the team grows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering skills with backend or frontend experience using Kotlin, Java, React, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience building scalable, robust automation or workflow systems.
• Ability to understand complex business processes, propose effective technical solutions, and collaborate across teams.
• Proactive approach, strong organization, and excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• At least 1 year of experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience applying AI or machine learning to automation or risk detection.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in fintech, payments, compliance, risk control, or user onboarding.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global financial infrastructure company operating across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
• Collaborate with teams across product, operations, compliance, and engineering.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment that values ownership, curiosity, sound judgment, and first-principles thinking.