Senior Software Engineer, DevX

Location

US - San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering Ecosystem & Integration Platform

Compensation

• base $213,512 – $270,900 • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Airwallex promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable 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 may vary depending on the nature of employment and work location. US-based employees 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.

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.

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 team

Collaborate with product, engineering, customer‑success, and technical support teams to refine & streamline developer experience for customers; Ensure APIs meet the highest standards and conventions by reviewing and defining in partnership with the engineering teams; Create next‑in‑class user and data analytics pipeline by building system to track user visits and user activity; Understand how visitors are consuming company content and improve user activity based on feedback; Build world‑class developer portal and docs with AI as a core feature by developing SDKs or prebuilt code in various programing languages; Ensure these SDKs are open‑sourced and available on GitHub for our users to access and foster a developer community; Incorporate the latest technologies and up‑leveling tech stack; and Develop external tools and services that get released to customers. Partial telecommuting permitted; on‑site at 188 Spear Street, Floor 9, San Francisco, CA 94105 when not telecommuting. Salary: $213,512–$270,900 per year.

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or any occupation, job title, position performing software engineering for developer‑facing products.

Must also have experience in the following: 5 years of professional experience utilizing programming languages including Typescript, Java, Kotlin, and Python; 5 years of professional experience working on high‑volume distributed systems; 5 years of professional experience working with GCP or AWS (including EC2, RDS, ELB, and CloudFront), Docker, and Kubernetes; 5 years of professional experience designing, releasing, and maintaining APIs; 5 years of professional experience leasing migrations in software; and 4 years of professional experience working with front‑end and back‑end systems.

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.