Engineering Manager, Infrastructure & Productivity

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 150,000 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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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.

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:

The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

The Role:

As the Senior Manager of Engineering for Airwallex’s Global Infrastructure team, you will lead multiple feature teams, including Engineering Productivity, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE. You will be responsible for ensuring these teams' delivery and engineering quality.

Your technical expertise and passion for engineering are essential, but your leadership skills, product thinking, and business acumen set you apart. You will be accountable for the quality and timely delivery of various engineering streams. You will remove obstacles, provide context and guidance to your teams, and know when to escalate issues.

In this role, you will collaborate with key stakeholders worldwide and manage engineers globally to define the technological vision for our business domain. Join us to lead and inspire our teams in shaping the future of global financial technology.

Responsibilities：

• Lead and manage high-performing engineering teams.

• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, thoroughly tested solutions.

• Foster a collaborative environment with innovative team members.

• Cultivate curiosity by continually asking "why" and proposing improvements.

• Solve problems passionately, digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues to find the best solutions.

Qualifications：

• 10+ years in modern engineering practices focused on Developer Tools, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Productivity, Continuous Integration, and Quality Engineering.

• Previous experience in people management, with experience managing managers being a must

• Strong computer science fundamentals, with proficiency in Java or Kotlin, Spring, and Spring Boot.

• Exposure to high-volume distributed systems.

• Hands-on experience with architecture and system design.

• Preferred experience with GCP, but proficiency with AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront), Docker, and Kubernetes is also excellent.

• Experience managing a global team

• Previous experience in FinTech/Payments is advantageous

This role will be based in Singapore.

At Airwallex, you will have the opportunity to impact a rapidly growing global fintech company significantly. We offer a competitive salary and strive to create an optimal work environment. Our collaborative open office spaces are equipped with fully stocked kitchens. We regularly organize team-building events, support flexible and remote working arrangements, and give our employees the freedom to be creative.

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. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.