Engineering Manager, Core Banking (Relocate to Singapore) in London

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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 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, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

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.

What You Will Do

The Core Banking Engineering Manager is a high‐impact role requiring close collaboration with product & engineering teams across the organization to maintain & evolve the brand new, modern client investment & settlement workflows (signup, investment, redemption), reconciliation control, unit registry / investment ledger and integration rails with our investment providers. The role will include both people & technical leadership responsibilities. It will require you to design and execute an engineering strategy in partnership with the organization’s senior technical & business leaders. You will be responsible for both the delivery & overall health of the Lending domain.

Ideal Experiences

• Solid understanding of payments, finance or accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission‐critical, distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers.
• Hands‐on experience with event‐driven architectures.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes.
• Evidence of working on high‐volume distributed systems. Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.

Applicant Safety Policy: To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.

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.