Software Engineer Fullstack

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

What you’ll do:

As a Software Engineer Fullstack, you will be responsible for working on a range of exciting initiatives across our international payments platform. Within one of our feature teams you will be delivering business outcomes, not just product features, developing a number of cloud-native, Kotlin-based microservices, and exposing those primarily via GraphQL to a React frontend. Kafka events/messaging also forms a key part of the architecture. The role will span a range of activities including designing and building new capabilities to support our product roadmap, architectural review of new and current solutions, reduction of tech debt and enhancements to improve operational effectiveness such as MTTD and MTTR.

What you’ll bring:

• 0 - 3 years professional experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a closely related field. Undergraduate education from a top school is highly preferred.

• This role is not targeted to current students who are enrolled in their undergraduate or graduate degree.

• A commitment to producing high quality and tested solutions.

• Strong computer science fundamentals. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot.

• Designing and building GraphQL APIs.

• High volume distributed systems.

• Kafka event streams.

• GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc), docker and Kubernetes exposure.

• Javascript / Typescript.

• Operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus.

• Flexibility to coordinate with colleagues in Melbourne AU as necessary

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We organize regular team building events, encourage hybrid/flexible working, and we give our people the freedom to be creative. 

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.