Engineering Lead, Payments Platform

Airwallex (UK) Limited

Job Overview

Location

NL - Amsterdam

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining Airwallex’s international payments platform, with direct accountability for team performance, goal setting, and individual development plans.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define the product roadmap, prioritize engineering initiatives, and deliver incremental value to production with high velocity and quality.
• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture, ensuring seamless interaction with React frontend systems.
• Conduct architectural reviews for current and upcoming solutions to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with business objectives.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt to improve system stability, reduce mean time to detect (MTTD), and reduce mean time to resolve (MTTR).
• Contribute to the hiring, onboarding, training, and long-term development of engineering talent within the team.
• Build and enhance the next-generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure focused on merchant needs, ensuring seamless integration of global payment methods.
• Work with partner engineering teams as needed to coordinate integrations and resolve cross-functional technical challenges.
• Gain deep expertise in Visa and Mastercard payment platforms, including their protocols, compliance requirements, and operational workflows.
• Utilize distributed systems technologies including Kafka for event streaming, Cassandra, Hazelcast, or Oracle Coherence for distributed data storage, and GCP or AWS services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, and CloudFront.
• Implement and monitor operational tooling including New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, and Prometheus to ensure system observability and performance.
• Write and maintain code primarily in Java or Kotlin using Spring / Spring Boot frameworks, with exposure to JavaScript/TypeScript for full-stack collaboration.
• Operate within a globally distributed team spanning China, the Netherlands, and Singapore, contributing to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of payment system features from concept through deployment, balancing speed with rigor and first-principles thinking.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate problem-solving and improve engineering efficiency across the team’s workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on low-latency, distributed systems
• At least one year of experience managing engineering teams
• Strong computer science fundamentals and experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with high-volume distributed systems, Kafka event streams, distributed data storage (Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence), and cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin using Spring / Spring Boot, with exposure to JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, or Prometheus

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a global payments platform used by over 200,000 businesses including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN
• Exposure to Visa and Mastercard payment ecosystems and deep technical learning in payments infrastructure
• Collaborative, founder-like culture with real ownership, accelerated learning, and high-impact projects
• Work within a globally distributed team across China, the Netherlands, and Singapore with diverse cultural perspectives

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

React

Senior

Onsite

Degree Required

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About Airwallex (UK) Limited

Airwallex is a global financial technology company providing cross-border payment and banking infrastructure for businesses. It offers multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, card issuing, expense management, and embedded finance APIs. Founded in Melbourne in 2015, the company serves enterprises and SMEs across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, operating under licenses in multiple jurisdictions and processing billions in annualized transaction volume.

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