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Engineering @ Airwallex

Helping businesses accept payments, move money globally, and streamline financial operations.

Engineering team at Airwallex.
Founded
2015
Work Style
Hybrid
Office Location
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Industry
Fintech
Employees
1.2K
Engineers
248
Funding
Series E
Glassdoor
Rating
4.2
Engineering Avg.
Equity
Yes
Ownership
Private

Helping businesses go global

Airwallex has humble origins: co-founder Jack Zhang started a specialty coffee business with co-founder Max Li and found it was extremely manual and expensive to purchase coffee cups and packaging overseas. They decided to solve the problem by founding Airwallex.

The company offers a suite of financial products and services for global businesses.

These include domestic and international business accounts, company cards, and expense management. The company also provides a financial infrastructure APIs, allowing businesses to embed their services to build digital-first products and customer experiences.

Airwallex holds an Australian Financial Services License and is regulated by ASIC.

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Vincent Yin

Senior Software Engineer
Airwallex
I'm continuously growing and being challenged to find innovative fixes for the problems we're solving.
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Elliot Colquhoun

Head of Information Security + IT
Airwallex
After chatting with a recruiter, the first interview is a tech screen where you’ll tell us a little about your background and solve a coding challenge. These are pretty similar to easy and medium questions on platforms like LeetCode.

A rapidly growing Fintech company

Engineers at Airwallex can make an impact at a rapidly growing, global Fintech company with a competitive salary and equity in the form of stock options.

The office space is a collaborative open environment with a fully stocked kitchen. The team organises regular team building events and encourages flexible/remote working.

Engineering culture

The Engineering team at Airwallex builds and maintains a suite of financial products including B2B wallets, payment acceptance, credit card issuing, treasury management, foreign exchange and more.

Headcount is growing fast and engineers are expected to work across multiple business areas and collaborate across the full technology stack.

The team maintains a fast release cycle, integrated DevOps, and a frontend microapps architecture. Engineers are expected have strong computer science fundamentals and to be able to think on their feet and adapt to a startup culture with fast-paced, rapidly changing success measures.

Tech Stack Overview
React/React Native
Kotlin
Java/Spring
Kafka
Kubernetes
AWS

Team traits

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Computer Science excellence

Team members are expected to have strong CompSci fundamentals.

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Be nimble

The company moves and changes quickly.

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Obsessive curiosity

Start by asking why and seek to understand the answer.

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Craft

The Engineering team prioritises meticulous attention to detail.

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Indepence

Teams have complete ownership of their products and independence from other functions in the business.

Benefits

Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)

Employees are offered competitive salary plus stock options.

Fully stocked kitchen
Fully stocked kitchen

Comfortable office with a fully stocked kitchen for employees.

Team-building
Team-building

Comfortable office with a fully stocked kitchen for employees.

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Engineering at Airwallex

Build financial infrastructure for global businesses.

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