Engineering Lead, Scale

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through feedback, performance management, and career development
• Set technical direction for scalable, reliable backend systems and partner with senior engineers on architecture and design
• Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence
• Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, compliance, sales, and engineering leaders to align execution with business priorities
• Help translate enterprise customer and commercial requirements into pragmatic technical solutions

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 1+ years in a people leadership role
• Strong backend development experience with Java/Spring Boot
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed production systems
• Strong system design and object-oriented design fundamentals
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated domains
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with API design, OAuth 2.0, or developer-facing platforms
• Exposure to cross-region deployment, data residency, or customer-facing technical architecture

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: £100,000 – £150,000 base range
• Equity and bonus opportunities
• Hybrid working model in London

About the Company

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 with fully integrated solutions to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, and embedded finance at a global scale.