Airwallex
Financial Services
StaffSoftwareEngineer,InfraProductivity
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“Staff Software Engineer, Infra Productivity at Airwallex. Skills: Agentic Platform Architecture, Agent Governance & Orchestration, AI Application Infrastructure, System Design & Integration, Technical Leadership. Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for the Productivity team. Building the infrastructure for an agent-centric software development lifecycle”
What You'll Achieve.
Empower hundreds of engineers — and their AI counterparts — to build software at Airwallex; Enable developers and non-engineers to generate, run, and share web applications from natural language; Enable closed-loop automation across the full product development lifecycle
Industry & Context.
Dig deep with curiosity; Make decisions from first principles; Solve problems faster using AI
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8 years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership, system design skills — experience architecting distributed, event-driven platforms with high availability and scalability requirements, Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure also relevant), Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical strategy across a global engineering organization
Nice to Have
Experience building AI/LLM-powered developer tools, agent frameworks, or autonomous systems, Familiarity with LLM integration patterns — prompt engineering, context engineering, tool use, MCP (Model Context Protocol), or agent orchestration frameworks, Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka), GitOps (ArgoCD, Helm), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
What You'll Do.
Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for the Productivity team
Building the infrastructure for an agent-centric software development lifecycle
Own the technical strategy across core platforms: AirDev (AI agent execution engine)
AirForge (AI-powered application factory)
and Quartermaster (agent workforce governance)
Design and evolve the architecture for AirDev
Architect Quartermaster
Lead the technical direction for AirForge
Design event-driven architectures connecting AI agents with enterprise systems (GitLab
Slack) via Kafka pipelines
Define domain-level technical roadmaps
Mentor senior engineers
Raise the bar on architecture quality
and operational maturity
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with AI agents as primary operators; Influence technical strategy across a global engineering organization; Work with exceptional teammates
Communication Scope
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; Ability to influence technical strategy
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 Staff Software Engineer, you will provide the technical leadership and architectural vision for the Productivity team. The team is building the infrastructure for an agent-centric software development lifecycle — a paradigm s
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