Frontend Architect (React)

Location: Singapore; on-site five days a week

Company

Airwallex builds financial infrastructure and a billing platform for global payments, revenue workflows, and financial products.

What you will do

• Shape frontend architecture for billing products using React, TypeScript, micro-frontends, GraphQL, and Node.js.
• Build design systems, shared component libraries, reusable packages, and frontend platforms.
• Design and deliver reliable, maintainable frontend systems for production.
• Improve engineering standards through testing, deployment automation, technical research, and technical-debt reduction.
• Partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Sales, and backend engineering across regions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of frontend development experience, including 2+ years working on frontend architecture.
• Strong React experience and experience with at least one other modern frontend framework, such as Vue or Angular.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP(S), RESTful APIs, and modern build tools such as Webpack, Rollup.js, or equivalent.
• Experience building Backend-for-Frontend layers with Node.js.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders and across cultures.
• Pragmatic decisions balancing performance and delivery velocity according to business impact.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales.
• Track record of designing for scale, maintainability, and production excellence.

Nice to have

• Experience with micro-frontend architecture, Single-SPA, or equivalent domain-based frontend platforms.
• Experience with GraphQL and Apollo in Backend-for-Frontend applications.
• Experience building design systems, shared component libraries, NPM packages, or reusable widgets.
• Experience with React Testing Library, Cypress, or comparable unit and end-to-end testing tools.
• Experience deploying frontend and Node.js services with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Next.js and headless CMS platforms such as Contentful.

Culture & Benefits

• Own the roadmap and outcomes, proactively fixing problems without waiting for permission.
• Work with a globally distributed team across APAC and EMEA time zones.
• Communicate directly across cultures and simplify complex problems.
• Build the billing platform supporting usage-based billing, pricing, checkout, 130+ currencies, and 160+ payment methods.