Airwallex

Financial Services

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,InfrastructureProductivity

Shanghai, China; Guangzhou, China; Beijing, China FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Productivity at Airwallex. Skills: AI Agent Infrastructure Development, Autonomous Software Delivery Platforms, Containerization and Orchestration, Event-Driven Architectures, Backend Service Development. Build and operate platforms that power autonomous software delivery. Develop and extend AirDev, the platform where AI agents autonomously execute software development tasks”

What You'll Achieve.

Make AI agents first-class participants in the software development lifecycle; Empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide with fully integrated solutions; Directly multiply the output of hundreds of engineers

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems faster using AI; Tackle complex, high-visibility problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5 years of professional software engineering experience, Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, Experience building production backend services, Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP AWS also relevant), Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, Solid understanding of messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), Solid understanding of RESTful API design, Experience with the full software development lifecycle, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Experience with code review, Experience with production operations

Nice to Have

Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, or developer tooling, Experience building with Claude, GPT, or similar prompt tool-use MCP (Model Context Protocol), Familiarity with Electron, Familiarity with desktop application development, Familiarity with container-based sandbox environments, A product-oriented mindset

What You'll Do.

Build and operate platforms that power autonomous software delivery

Develop and extend AirDev

the platform where AI agents autonomously execute software development tasks

orchestrate agent lifecycles

and integrate with GitLab

Contribute to AirForge

a containerized desktop application that uses Claude Code to generate

and publish web applications

Build Quartermaster and CREW (Customized Resilient Enterprise Workflow)

the systems that provision

and govern autonomous agent workflows

Design and maintain Kafka-based event pipelines

Own the reliability of production agent infrastructure

Continuous improvement of platform services running on Kubernetes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with exceptional teammates; Multiply the output of hundreds of engineers through built tools

Process & Methodology

Taking features from design to production

Full Job Description

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 2,000 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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. RESPONSIBILITIES As a Senior Software Engineer at Airwallex, you will join the Productivity team on a mission to make AI agents first-class participants in the software development lifecycle. You will build and operate the platforms that power aut

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