Staff Software Engineer, New Products

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate on 0-to-1 Products: Partner with the CEO and global leadership to translate high-level strategic visions and AI capabilities into functional, market-ready software.
• Drive Fintech AI Innovation: Lead the technical evaluation and implementation of emerging AI technologies and intelligent workflows, figuring out how they can best serve our financial platform.
• Balance Speed with Maintainability: Make pragmatic architectural decisions. You know when to build a quick prototype to validate an idea, and how to structure it so that it can be successfully handed off and scaled if it succeeds.
• Own the Full Stack: While steering backend architecture and systems design, you are comfortable working across the entire stack to deliver complete solutions, from data models to user interfaces.
• Bootstrap Future Teams: Help lay the technical foundation for successful incubation projects, ensuring a smooth transition as they grow into standalone product lines within Airwallex.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a background that includes operating at a Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced, greenfield environments.
• Strong Product Sense: You look at engineering through a commercial lens. You care about us

er experience, business impact, and why a product is being built, not just the code itself.

• Comfort with Ambiguity: You enjoy working in spaces where requirements aren't fully defined yet, and you can independently map out technical specs from high-level direction.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: You are resourceful, self-directed, and focused on delivering outcomes, finding efficient ways to work through technical or institutional blockers.
• Deep Backend & Full-Stack Capabilities: Solid fundamentals in high-performance backend ecosystems alongside the practical ability to build frontend interfaces when moving quickly.
• Clear Communication: Ability to discuss deep technical trade-offs with core infrastructure teams and present clear, simplified product outcomes to executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building software that leverages Generative AI, LLMs, or automated agent workflows.
• Experience in fintech, payments, multi-currency ledgering, or regulated financial systems.
• Prior experience as a founding engineer, tech lead of an R&D team, or technical co-founder.

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