Senior Product Engineer, CoE

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 2,700 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.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you’ll shape the future of Airwallex’s Finance team at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution.

You’ll define and deliver the future of our global Finance function by diagnosing gaps, designing the target state, and building the solutions that get us there. You’ll connect processes, data, and platforms; make thoughtful build-versus-buy decisions; and align stakeholders around a clear transformation journey.

You’ll embed deeply with global Finance teams to identify high-impact use cases, own the AI transformation roadmap, take technical solutions from prototype to production, and codify effective working patterns into reusable building blocks. You’ll also help drive adoption, upskilling, and accountability by tracking and communicating the outcomes of your work.

You’ll work from our London office three days a week.

Essentials

• 5+ years of software or forward-deployed engineering experience.

• Strong product sense, with the ability to evaluate engineering decisions through a commercial lens and connect technical work to user experience and business impact.

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to independently map technical specifications from high-level direction.

• A pragmatic, resourceful, and self-directed approach to solving technical and organisational blockers.

• The ability to discuss deep technical trade-offs with infrastructure teams and present clear, simplified product outcomes to executive stakeholders.

Preferred

• Strong academic credentials from a top-tier university.

• Experience in top-tier management consulting, systems integration, or digital transformation leadership.

• Hands-on experience with Finance systems such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite, and automation or AI tools such as machine-learning-based reconciliation and workflow platforms.

• Familiarity with data architecture, analytics, and business intelligence to support decision-making and measure impact.

• Experience building software that uses generative AI, LLMs, or automated agent workflows.

• Experience in fintech, payments, multi-currency ledgering, or regulated financial systems.

• Prior experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early employee.

• 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 with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it.

• You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect.

• You come to the table with a point of view, not just a problem.

Finance & Corporate Development helps Airwallex grow with control. We’re a trusted partner to the business, providing actionable insights on performance, supporting market and product expansion and helping to shape the future of our product. We ensure that Airwallex meets its financial reporting, tax and safeguarding obligations globally. We work with existing and prospective investors to raise capital and ensure it is deployed effectively.

This is a team for people who want to reimagine how the CFO office works. We’re looking for founder-like energy, high integrity and a passion for technology. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy working cross-functionally, think from first principles and can balance speed of execution with analytical precision.

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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.