Senior IT Engineer, LRC

Join to apply for the Senior IT Engineer, LRC role at Airwallex About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world‑leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder‑like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role‑related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. Youre humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end‑to‑end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. About The Team Corporate IT drives our IT support, IT engineering and business engineering functions at Airwallex. IT Engineering is the core team that drives our technology experiences for Airwallex. From collaboration, automation and video conferencing to managing our computers, applications, identity and access management. We design, build and run the systems and services our Airwallex teams use to build our product, serve our customers and run our business. We partner with every team in the business, from Finance to Engineering, People and Support, we help solve problems and help drive Airwallex forward. What You’ll Do As an IT Engineer, you’ll focus on solving problems and fixing issues our business and IT operations teams encounter throughout the day. You’ll work on systems and escalations, helping to fix issues and building and implementing solutions to our many challenges. This role will have a strong focus on workflows, automation and orchestration with our Legal, Risk and Compliance organization as well as serve as a member of our IT engineering team. Partnering with our Legal team, you’ll help them work faster, leverage AI, build workflows and serve as the engineer to the team. This role is highly collaborative, and has a global impact from day one. Our LRC teams sit in many countries and regions, and you’ll have a significant opportunity to build a new function within the IT engineering team. This role is based in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco or Singapore. Responsibilities Serve as the primary IT engineer for our LRC teams, learning and understanding their workflows, ways of working, and how they serve Airwallex, building a model to improve and scale their function Build workflows and orchestrations – these touch many systems and will impact many teams Use low‑code/no‑code tools to build automations/orchestrations (Workato, Okta Workflows, Zapier, etc.) Leverage, design, implement AI with a focus on the LRC function and the unique ways of working within an in‑house legal function Work with APIs across major vendors (Okta, Google, GCP, Aliyun, etc.) Build and enhance our AI portfolio, with an initial focus on legal‑specific tools and implementation (Harvey.ai, etc.) Become a trusted advisor to our LRC team and the IT engineering team, acting as an expert and consultant Build, enhance and grow legal applications and serve as the technical owner or primary IT engineer for the space (Ironclad, Auditboard, Google Workspace, internal tools, etc.) Manage and build service desks and orchestrations (Atlassian products, i.e. JIRA, Confluence, etc.) Own the full lifecycle of features and products within this space, from proof‑of‑concept to implementation to operations and maintenance – leading projects from start to finish Handle escalations from other IT teams where relevant Work closely with INFOSEC, People Ops, Engineering and IT teams to build systems that scale as we grow globally Integrate our tools with new and existing platforms (cloud, GCP, etc.) and across our SaaS portfolio (SFDC, Slack, Google, etc.) Build and maintain custom tools or services if needed Respond to incidents as part of an on‑call roster or in emergencies Write documentation and maintain diagrams of your solutions and applications, ensuring readability and understanding Work with IT Operations and IT Engineering to help fill gaps and collaborate on other projects and services Constantly learn, test, evaluate and enhance our products and offerings – never letting anything get stale Who You Are Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role. Highly trustworthy and empathetic – this works with privileged information and with some of our most important information, trust is critical Autonomous and able to work with minimal direction while maintaining velocity and delivering projects on time – sometimes with aggressive deadlines and failure‑is‑not‑an‑option risk Strong ability to write strong technical documents Expert level understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth, SSO, etc. Expert knowledge of workflows and common orchestration tools (workato, etc.) Experience with a programming language, such as python, and infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform) Experience with APIs, able to work with common vendors and integrate into our tech stack Experience using and understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.) Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access management principles in security and corporate IT environments Experience working in all SaaS‑based systems and applications Strong understanding of MDM systems (macOS, windows; kandji, JAMF, intune, etc.) Ability to move fast and urgently, making correct decisions and assumptions – sometimes without all the information Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third‑Party Recruiters 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. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Compensation Range: $150K - $250K Job Details Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr Airwallex