Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, customer success, and technical support teams to refine and streamline the developer experience.
• Ensure APIs meet the highest standards and industry conventions.
• Create next-in-class user and data analytics pipelines.
• Build a world-class developer portal and documentation with AI as a core feature.
• Contribute to open source and foster a growing developer community.
• Incorporate the latest technologies to up-level the existing tech stack.
• Develop external tools and services for customer release.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related major.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript).
• Proven experience working on high-volume distributed systems.
• Strong cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing or maintaining well-known APIs.
• Background within the financial services or fintech domain.
• Experience leading major software migrations involving breaking changes.
• Experience working in both early-stage startups and large-scale enterprises.
• Deep technical expertise in either front-end or back-end systems.
• Previous experience in Developer Experience (DevX) or other customer-facing engineering roles.

About the Company

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide—including Brex, Rippling, and Qantas—to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, and treasury at a global scale. Based in Melbourne with a global presence, we are building the future of global banking.