Senior Backend Engineer, Spend Team (Cards)

Airwallex Singapore, Singapore
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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.

Who you are: We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience designing and building backend systems and APIs in production.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
  • Proficient in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python).
  • Solid understanding of REST API design and backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
  • Strong focus on performance, reliability, and code quality.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).