Engineering Manager, Growth

Airwallex (UK) Limited

Job Overview

Location

US - San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead the talent strategy for your organization by recruiting, onboarding, and developing top-tier engineers and managers, building a diverse team with robust succession plans for sustained velocity.
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization by setting goals, establishing career paths, running performance and compensation processes, and cultivating a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.
• Coach and grow your team through regular feedback, performance management, and career development plans, while supporting hiring and onboarding to scale sustainably.
• Drive cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal, Risk, Operations, Support, and other engineering teams, effectively communicating progress, insights, and business impact to executive leadership and key partners across the company.
• Foster strong collaboration between your team and local/global engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, while providing strategic leadership for a mission-critical platform — aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• This role is based in San Francisco.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams (small to mid-sized).
• Proven ability to recruit, onboard, and develop top-tier engineers, including building succession plans and career ladders.
• Experience running performance and compensation processes and fostering an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make technical tradeoffs, and align engineering efforts with business objectives and success metrics.
• Excellent skills in translating technical concepts for stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Executive leadership.
• Track record of building API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work at a company valued at US$8 billion with backing from world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital.
• Join a global team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe.
• Work on a unified payments and financial platform empowering over 200,000 businesses worldwide, including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN.
• Be part of a mission-driven culture that values founder-like energy, real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership.
• Leverage AI to work smarter and solve problems faster while tackling complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates.

Skills & Technologies

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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