Senior Software Engineer, Regulatory Reporting

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:

• Strong backend or data engineering fundamentals — comfortable across the stack: data transformation and modelling, application logic, and cloud infrastructure. You can go deep where needed and zoom out to the platform view when required.
• Track record of working closely with non-engineering stakeholders — compliance, legal, operations, finance — to translate complex and often ambiguous domain requirements into accurate, maintainable technical implementations. You do not treat unclear requirements as a blocker; you work through them.
• Appreciation for the full lifecycle of a data product — not just building the pipeline that generates output, but owning what happens before and after: requirement changes, resubmissions, historical traceability, and the audit trail that makes the platform defensible under scrutiny.
• Engineering rigour: you care about data correctness, auditability, meaningful test coverage, and system reliability. You know the difference between code that passes CI and code that is actually correct.
• Strong product sensibility — you see beyond the ticket to the real user need, and you are dissatisfied with solutions that are technically complete but operationally painful or brittle in practice.
• Clear, precise communicator. You can articulate a technical trade-off to a non-technical stakeholder and a domain requirement to an engineer, without losing precision in either direction.
• A genuine intolerance for avoidable inefficiency — manual, repetitive, or error-prone workflows are a problem for you to solve, not accept.

Preferred qualifications:

• Background in fintech, payments, banking, or financial services — particularly in environments where financial data accuracy, auditability, and operational compliance are non-negotiable rather than aspirational.
• Familiarity with multi-jurisdiction regulatory or compliance reporting contexts — or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly and accurately in new regulatory environments with limited hand-holding.
• Hands-on experience applying LLM and agentic tooling to solve real operational problems in production — not just building proofs of concept. You think critically about where AI genuinely adds value and where it adds noise, and you know how to evaluate the difference rigorously.
• Experience with cloud-native workflow orchestration, scalable data pipelines, and building robust multi-environment deployment infrastructure — the kind that is still running reliably in production two years later.
• Understanding of how money moves through a global payments or banking platform — transactions, FX, settlements, fund flows, and the data trails they leave. This context makes you faster and more accurate in this domain.
• Experience designing platforms for horizontal scale: consistent enough to enforce standards across many regions, flexible enough to onboard a new jurisdiction without a full rewrite. At Airwallex, we are building the financial infrastructure that powers global businesses. The work this team does makes that possible — compliantly, accurately, and at scale. If you are motivated by problems that are technically demanding, operationally high-stakes, and genuinely global in scope, we would like to meet you.