Staff Software Engineer, 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, with substantial experience in backend development and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language, with solid computer science fundamentals, object-oriented design skills, and experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Spring Boot. Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture, including domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, scalability, reliability, and modern engineering practices. Proven Staff-level technical leadership, with a track record of driving complex, cross-team engineering initiatives, shaping architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers. Strong ownership and execution skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality solutions from design through production operations. Experience building growth platforms, experimentation systems, customer segmentation engines, marketing automation, or data-intensive applications. Experience building AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability. Experience with real-time data pipelines, streaming technologies, or large-scale event processing. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, containerization, and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with production observability and reliability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or equivalent. Experience designing integrations across product, analytics, CRM, marketing, or other enterprise systems. Experience in high-growth technology companies, fintech, payments, or regulated environments. You have high agency. You proactively identify high-impact opportunities, shape technical direction, and drive execution without waiting for detailed instructions. You think in systems. You build reusable platforms and abstractions that enable multiple teams to move faster rather than optimizing for one-off solutions. You're pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You balance long-term architectural quality with speed of delivery, and measure success by real-world impact. You're comfortable with ambiguity. You make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information, validate assumptions quickly, and adapt as you learn. You lead through influence. You communicate clearly, challenge ideas constructively, mentor other engineers, and build alignment across teams. You balance autonomy with collaboration. You know when to make decisions independently and when broader alignment is essential. You thrive in a global environment. You're comfortable collaborating across distributed teams and time zones, including 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