Engineering Lead, Growth

Airwallex Hybrid (San Francisco, California, United States) Full Time Negotiable Today About The Job 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 2,300 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 pri... Growth Engineering at Airwallex is building an AI-native platform that powers customer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion. We're developing scalable infrastructure, intelligent decision systems, and automation capabilities that connect product, sales, and marketing to drive measurable busi... Required Skills & Abilities 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams or complex technical initiatives, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack engineering, with experience designing, building, and operating scalable production systems using technologies such as Python, Java/Kotlin, React, or TypeScript. Proven technical leadership and execution skills, with a track record of leading complex engineering projects, making sound architectural decisions, managing technical tradeoffs, and delivering high-quality solutions. Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers, through mentorship, technical guidance, effective delegation, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Strong ownership, product judgment, and cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, prioritize effectively, and translate business objectives into measurable engineering outcomes. Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or product-led growth experiences. Experience developing AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability. Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP. Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, or Revenue Operations. Experience establishing engineering processes, improving delivery predictability, and scaling team execution in fast-moving environments. Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments. You have high agency and ownership. You proactively identify high-impact opportunities, take accountability for outcomes, and empower your team to deliver. You're a technical leader who builds. You stay close to architecture and implementation, make sound technical decisions, and lead by example. You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You balance engineering quality, delivery speed, and business impact, prioritizing what moves the needle. You're comfortable leading through ambiguity. You bring structure to complex problems, set clear priorities, and make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information. You grow people and teams. You coach engineers, delegate effectively, create clarity, and build a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. You communicate proactively and influence effectively. You align stakeholders, surface risks early, navigate tradeoffs, and drive decisions across functions. You thrive in a global environment. You're comfortable leading and collaborating across distributed teams in APAC, EMEA, and the US. Growth at Airwallex is building a unified, AI-native growth system across product, sales, and marketing. Rather than applying AI to isolated tasks, we use customer context, machine learning, automation, and continuous learning to transform how Airwallex acquires, activates, converts, retains, and expands customers. You’ll build high-traffic platforms, experimentation frameworks, and intelligent decision systems that turn signals—such as company profile, product usage, lifecycle stage, behavior, and intent—into personalized journeys, next-best actions, and measurable incremental value. The work spans both human + AI and autonomous operating models: AI-native tools that increase the leverage of growth teams, alongside agentic workflows that can research opportunities, launch and optimize campaigns, orchestrate customer journeys, and measure outcomes within clear strategies and guardrails. The challenge is to combine consumer-technology speed with the precision, trust, and regulatory complexity of global B2B finance. If you enjoy owning ambiguous problems end to end, prototyping quickly, measuring real business impact, and using every outcome to improve the next decision, you’ll help define how an AI-native global financial platform grows. To 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. Qualifications Experience: 8 years experience Education: Bachelor Apply now Please let Airwallex know you found this job on JobVista. This helps us grow! Apply now Apply now Please let Airwallex know you found this job on JobVista. This helps us grow! Apply now Job Overview Company Airwallex Location Hybrid (San Francisco, California, United States) Job Type Full Time Salary Negotiable Experience 8 years experience Education Bachelor Posted Today Deadline Apr 13, 2027 About Company Industry Accounting/Finance Founded - View Company Profile ⟶ Quick Actions