Senior IT Engineer, Workplace

About AirwallexAirwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 ValueWe 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.You're 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 teamCorporate IT builds and runs the technology Airwallex runs on — laptops, identity, collaboration, automation, AI. We partner with every team in the company, from Finance to Engineering, to solve hard problems and build new solutions. We remove friction from technology, provide world-class support, and drive outcomes that help Airwallex move faster and go further.What you’ll doAs an IT Engineer, you’ll work in our IT Engineering function, owning our collaboration tool stack. You’ll be the primary owner of our Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and our collaboration surfaces our Airwallex uses to connect with our customers and work together every day. This is a technical, hands-on role, using code, integrations, clickops, command line, terminals and more. You’ll be an expert and own much of our Google Workspace operations, ensuring we build and manage a complex footprint across Google products and bring them all together with Identity engineering. You’ll need to be intensely curious, and relentless about solving hard problems. You’ll build integrations and workflows that solve our problems. You’ll work closely with INFOSEC, Revenue Operations and other IT teams across the world, ensuring we build secure and scalable solutions across the many regions where we operate. You’ll also drive onboarding and enablement of AI products and features in and around these products, experimenting, trialing and finally leveraging these tools to work faster, and drive your own results farther.This role will focus and own our Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and collaboration platforms we use at Airwallex, and will work on other projects.This role is based in San Francisco, Sydney, or Melbourne.ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, optimize Slack integrations, workflows, apps and services – you will be the primary owner and SME on Slack for AirwallexDesign, develop, optimise Google Workspace and Zoom, connecting those services and platforms, using APIs and technical tools and codeDevelop custom scripts or use low/no-code or third-party solutions to move and manage data between collaboration platforms (Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, JIRA, etc.)Build bots, workflows, automations that connect with these tools, and leveraging AI models to enhance performanceRegularly assess and ensure our collaboration tools work how we need them to – ensuring secure and scalable growthManage through ambiguity, able to take vague problems and build solutions with strong intuition on the right path forwardRun complex migrations and integrations from mergers and acquisitions, helping to bring in new teams to AirwallexCollaborate extensively across the business, with key teams in Finance, Legal, Operations, Support, Sales etc. to solve their problems, and help them use these products to move faster and support our growthWrite and build custom solutions where products fall short – solve Airwallex problems either by building or buyingServe on the IT Engineering team, helping with escalations from Support and leveraging your all-round knowledge to solve other problems as neededDrive key AI outcomes, evaluating, deploying, enabling teams to use AI technology across our business, and within our core products we supportWho you are5+ years in a corporate platform or collaboration services engineer role, using cloud-first/SaaS based collaboration solutions5+ years with demonstrable experience as the “primary owner” of a core product – Slack or Google Workspace, able to speak to technical detailExtremely strong written and verbal communication, able to convey an idea or solution to technical and non-technical audiences in chat, documents or zoomDemonstrated experience with data migration, automation scripts, custom build integrations, bots and workflowsClear and demonstrated understanding of common AI models and tools, able to speak to examples of deployment and daily use of these tools, with a strong ability to learn new concepts and technology quickly and self-directedHands-on coding experience with automation tools and APIs; experience with JSON, REST APIs, Python or similar technologies.Experience with low-code/no-code tools (i.e. Workato, Tray, Mulesoft) a plus, but not requiredDemonstrated experience building/administering integrations with common tech startup platforms: Atlassian, Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, etc.Knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms and deploying code or services to them (Google Cloud, AWS) and key services within (Cloud Function, etc.)Strong knowledge and experience in IT Operations, understanding how global teams work and how IT support functions, escalations happen, and how to solve problemsComfortable working in a global org, with in-person and remote collaboration across multiple time zonesAble to participate in on-call rotations, and serve as an SME for primary tools or solutions they build (“build it, own it” mentality)Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party RecruitersTo 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 opportunityAirwallex 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 - $250KLocationUS - San FranciscoEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentEngineeringEnterprise EngineeringCompensation$150K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers BonusAirwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable national, federal, state, and local law.These expected base pay ranges are based on information at the time this post was generated and represent the company’s good faith minimum and maximum ranges for this role at the time of posting.The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills and other qualifications, geographic location as noted, internal equity, and other external market factors.Certain roles may be eligible for other compensation including, but not limited to, annual bonuses, commissions, RSUs, or other forms of compensation in addition to the established salary range.Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements. All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many of our locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.For example, for US-based employees, they are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.Further details about our compensation and benefits package are available upon request by contacting our Talent Acquisition team.