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.
You’ll improve how external developers discover, understand, integrate with, and build on Airwallex’s APIs and platform. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Technical Support to streamline the developer experience, from API design and documentation to tooling, analytics, and customer feedback loops.
Own API standards and conventions that make Airwallex’s developer experience clearer and more consistent.
Build the user and data analytics pipelines needed to understand how developers use our products and where they need help.
Develop a developer portal and documentation experience with AI as a core feature.
Contribute to open-source projects and foster a developer community around Airwallex’s platform.
Adopt technologies that raise the bar for our engineering practices and ship external tools and services to customers.
You'll work from our Singapore office five days a week.
What we're looking forEssentials
A bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong backend development experience in Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
Solid computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design.
Experience designing, building, and operating high-volume distributed systems.
Strong cloud engineering experience with GCP or AWS, including services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, or CloudFront, along with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience releasing and maintaining well-known APIs or designing APIs.
Preferred
Experience in AI agent applications.
Experience in MCP servers.
Experience in maintaining open-source projects.
Experience leading major software migrations involving breaking changes.
Experience in developer experience or other customer-facing engineering roles.
You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
You're excited by a category that hasn't been won yet, and want to be early enough to shape it.
You’re comfortable operating across time zones with a globally distributed team, including colleagues based in APAC and North America.
You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it.
The Developer Experience team is a group of talented engineers and product partners building the tools and platforms that connect external developers of our customers to Airwallex. We own the core developer ecosystem—including Airwallex’s documentation platforms, APIs, CLI, SDKs, OAuth, external agentic interfaces (MCP & Skills), Developer Apps, and Sandbox. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and other cross-functional teams to ship secure, reliable, and high-impact developer tools. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about simplifying financial operations for businesses of all sizes and enabling new capabilities on top of Airwallex products and platforms, this is where that work happens.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party RecruitersTo protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunityAirwallex 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.
Airwallex London, England Office
Airwallex London, UK Office
Labs House, 15-19 Bloomsbury Way, London, United Kingdom, WC1A 2TH
Sales
Our London office is scaling fast. We're a 140+ strong team and growing, and our Sales team is right at the heart of it. The momentum is real: we're investing over $1bn into the region and $590m into the UK. Revenue is up 116% year on year and volumes have surged 226%, and we’ve only captured a fraction of what’s possible. That's where you come in. You'll be selling a world-class proven product into a market that's still wide open. Global heavyweights like McLaren Racing, Arsenal, Bolt, Qantas, and Carwow already run on Airwallex. For you, that means real ownership from the start, a role you'll scale, and scope that grows as fast as you can sell. It's a rare moment to join: proven product, open market, and a team going places
