Senior Software Engineer (Growth)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $158K–$225K base annually, plus potential equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex provides an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure for businesses and financial product builders.

What you will do

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Kotlin microservices for high-traffic, high-availability growth systems.
• Design service communication, orchestration, fault-tolerance, and event-driven architectures.
• Build data pipelines, analytics platforms, experimentation capabilities, feature toggles, and real-time monitoring.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, frontend, design, and marketing teams to deliver scalable backend solutions.
• Improve backend quality and performance through architectural reviews, code reviews, and engineering strategy.
• Apply secure coding practices to protect user data and support global regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with modern engineering practices, continuous integration, and quality engineering.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, object-oriented programming, domain-driven design, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency, high-availability distributed systems.
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Nice to have

• Experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring/Spring Boot.
• Experience with go-to-market operations, data warehousing, customer segmentation, and analytics tools.
• Experience building internal or customer-facing products with AI and large language models.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on ownership, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Benefits include a 401(k), disability and life insurance, and well-being support.
• US-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.
• Additional compensation may include equity, annual bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.