Engineering Lead, Scale

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and...

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. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions ...

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 tha...

As an Engineering Lead, Scale, you will lead a team building critical platform capabilities for Airwallex’s embedded finance products. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.
You will manage engineers directly and be accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and involved at an architectural level, your focus is enabling the team to do its best work.
Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development.
Set technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design.
Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity.
Work cross-functionally with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities.
Help translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.

5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1+ years in a people leadership role.
Strong backend development experience with Java/Spring Boot.
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed production systems.
Strong system design and object-oriented design fundamentals.
Ability to balance abstraction, simplicity, and speed in technical decision-making.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution.
Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture.
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer-facing platforms.
Exposure to cross-region deployment, data residency, or customer-facing technical architecture.
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