Staff Software Engineer, New Products
Airwallex
Overview
In this role you collaborate with the CEO and leadership to turn high-level AI-enabled fintech strategies into market-ready software. You drive AI innovation for the platform, balance rapid prototyping with scalable design, and own end-to-end delivery across the stack. You help bootstrap future incubation projects into standalone product lines and shape the technical foundation of a fast-moving fintech initiative. This is a high-ownership role that shapes the next generation of global banking technology.
Pay / Benefits- Equity
- Bonus
- Hybrid
- Salary range 95,796–177,907
- Paid time off
- Well-being benefits
- Collaborate with the CEO and leadership to translate strategy into market-ready software (0-to-1 products)
- Lead technical evaluation and implementation of AI technologies and intelligent workflows for the financial platform
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
- Own the full stack from data models to user interfaces
- Bootstrap technical foundations for incubation projects and scale into standalone product lines
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced environments
- Strong product sense and focus on user experience and business impact
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to map technical specs from high-level direction
- Pragmatic problem solver with self-direction and outcome‑oriented mindset
- Deep backend and full-stack capabilities with ability to build frontend interfaces when needed
- Clear communication with infrastructure teams and executive stakeholders
- collaboration
- curiosity
- ownership
- high-performance backend fundamentals
- full-stack capability
- Generative AI / LLMs / automated agent workflows
Reference: WJ-747_30183914