Engineering Manager, IAM & Account Infrastructure

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Singapore, SGP
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Do the most ambitious work of your career. Airwallex is building the future of global banking.
The Role
Lead the IAM and Account Infrastructure team to design, build, and scale identity, authentication/authorization, and account systems. Drive engineering excellence, security, high availability, and data-driven product decisions while collaborating with product, design, and global engineering teams.
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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 200,000 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

Become an integral part of our Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Account team, where you will play a critical role in advancing our identity solutions and fortifying our account infrastructure. We are on the lookout for passionate engineers driven to work on cutting-edge projects that enhance the availability, scalability, and security of our platform. Engage in global collaboration with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver exceptional IAM solutions that safeguard businesses and optimize our account infrastructure for Airwallex's exponential growth.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and Evolve: Working with best talents and build IAM products with revolutionary technologies to keep businesses secure.

  • Measure and Optimise: Leverage data to drive decisions. Your keen data sense will help you measure the success of our products and identify opportunities for optimization and growth.

  • Engineer Excellence: Champion engineering excellence by establishing and maintaining high standards for code quality, performance, and security. Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions that support and accelerate Airwallex's exponential growth.

This role is based in Singapore.


Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experienced and Technically Proficient: You bring a wealth of experience in software development, ideally with a strong focus in HA / access control / authentication and authorization / identity management. Your technical expertise enables you to develop robust and secure systems.

  • Strategic and Forward-Thinking: You optimize for long-term value, making decisions that positively impact the business and technology landscape over time. Your strategic mindset helps anticipate future needs and contributes to sustainable growth.

  • Customer-Focused and Empathetic: Your understanding of customer security needs guides your development process. You create intuitive IAM solutions that enhance our platform's usability while maintaining top-notch security.

  • Data-Driven and Analytical: You leverage data to inform and refine IAM strategies, ensuring our systems are both effective and efficient.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in a growing tech or fintech company

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

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.

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.

Skills Required

  • Proven experience in software development
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable infrastructure
  • Championing code quality, performance, and security best practices
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers
  • Managerial or team leadership experience
  • Strong focus (ideally) in high-availability systems, access control, authentication/authorization, and identity management
  • Data-driven decision making and analytical approach
  • Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on secure, usable IAM solutions
  • Based in Singapore / ability to work in Singapore

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Airwallex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Feedback suggests multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options with FSA/HSA, life and disability coverage, and confidential mental-health support via Modern Health/Rula. Employee-only premiums are described as fully covered in some U.S. plans, with optional pet insurance available.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Feedback suggests U.S. roles include 20 paid vacation days plus 12 company holidays, alongside generous PTO/sick leave and three paid volunteer days starting 2025. Additional touches like birthday leave are also highlighted.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Feedback suggests RSUs administered via Carta are a meaningful part of total compensation and broadly available, reinforcing an employee-ownership model.

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The Company
2,200 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

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 200,000+ 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable, and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast, think globally, and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious, let's talk.

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At a global level, we have a strong in-office culture. We’ve invested in world-class office space in hub cities around the world. We see the benefits of in-person conversation, mentoring, and knowledge-transfer as vital to our long-term success.

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