Senior Software Engineer, Org & Identity

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

How you'll make impact

You'll shape the long-term technical vision for Airwallex's identity, authentication, and core account domains. You'll work on highly available, cloud-native systems that secure our platform and support global scale.

• Own the technical vision and architecture for our Identity and Access Management and account infrastructure domains.
• Build highly available, cloud-native IAM products and account infrastructure using Java or Kotlin.
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Engineering teams to turn business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Improve engineering quality through thoughtful system design, code reviews, automated testing, and best practices for performance, reliability, and security.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development.
• Strong proficiency in a modern programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management concepts, including authentication, authorization, SSO, and MFA.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Redis.
• Experience mentoring engineers and helping level up team capabilities.
• Familiarity with application security best practices and secure coding standards, including OWASP.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining highly available products and scalable infrastructure.
• Experience implementing security protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, or SAML.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Engineering teams.

Preferred

• Experience in the fintech, banking, or payments industry.
• Experience with data governance tools or privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Experience working in a high-growth startup or unicorn environment.

You'll thrive here if

• You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
• You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
• You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work.
• You've worked in a high-growth or scaling environment and know what it takes to build systems that need to grow with the business.

Learn more about your team

The Organization & Identity team is responsible for building and evolving Airwallex's core identity and organization foundations, covering user onboarding, authentication and access control through to organization-structure modeling, account-ownership management, and org-level workflow enablement. We continuously strengthen platform availability, scalability, and security so all products can depend on a unified, trusted identity and organization base. Our team owns identity, authN, authZ, and the technical capabilities behind identity verification, and partners closely with Risk, Compliance and Onboarding on broader controls.

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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.