Engineering Manager, AI Tooling

About the role

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. You will be part of a team building AI tooling that helps employees turn ideas into working apps, dashboards, and workflow tools faster.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of engineers, providing technical direction, setting clear goals, and ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of AI-powered tooling.
• Own team execution and delivery, including planning, prioritization, resourcing, and performance management while balancing hands-on technical leadership.
• Lead the development of AI tools and applications, from inception to implementation.
• Support incident response efforts by building ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation and scanners.
• Build, monitor, and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines.
• Sit with engineers to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development.
• Mentor and help grow other Software Engineers in the team.

Requirements

• Prior experience leading or managing software engineering teams, including mentorship, career development, and performance feedback.
• Proven ability to translate business goals into execution plans, aligning roadmap, timelines, and engineering capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience with production code bases.
• Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python) and one systems programming language (eg. Golang, C/C++).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience working autonomously on projects - delivering them to a high quality and on time.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Obsessive curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and learn.
• Experience working in a high-growth tech company.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience with AI - specifically leveraging AI to build applications.
• Experience maintaining Linux operating systems.

Skills

• Strong technical skills in software engineering.
• Experience with AI and machine learning.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plan, paid time off, and more.

Pay

$220K - $320K

Schedule

Full-time, remote option available.