Software Engineer- New Graduates 2024

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world's most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

To support our ambitious growth plans, we are looking for talented, curious and determined individuals to join us for this full-time position in 2024 July/ August.

As a graduate, you will be responsible for partnering with Airwallex's engineering teams to drive a high performance, data driven culture. You'll work on high priority areas, such as ensuring operational effectiveness and alignment across the Engineering organization as Airwallex continues to scale across the globe.

2024 presents a unique greenfield opportunity to design and implement a more scalable domain boundary in the form of a next generation transaction orchestration engine which is expected to harmonize the movement of funds across our ecosystem and provide an elegant platform for sister domains to model more complicated fund settlement workflows examples of which include online card authorisation, batch payment, fund investment, interest bearing & loan repayment workflows.

You will：

• Work with a wide range of systems and teams to deliver a solid foundation for our global payment infrastructure
• Communicate with other engineering teams across Airwallex's global offices
• Collaborate with our users and financial partners on a regular basis
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems
• Debug production issues at multiple levels of the stack
• Own and optimize several critical parts of Airwallex's online payment processing flow

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Graduated in 2023 or will be graduating in 2024 from a Bachelor's or Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Maths or related major.
• Less than a year of full-time software engineering experience excluding internships
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Desire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry
• Think about systems and services and write high quality code. We work mostly in Kotlin
• However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems；
• Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
• Drive in a collaborative environment involving making decisions with different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise. Engineers at Airwallex collaborate with teams across the company, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers, to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world

Plus if you:

• Familiar with Spring / Spring Boot
• Familiar with HTTP protocol and RESTful specifications
• Knowledge about Cassandra / PostgreSQL / Redis / NoSQL
• Working experience with Kotlin / Scala / Python / Shell
• Working experience with RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Working experience with cloud vendors, such as Aliyun Cloud, GCP or AWS
• When applying, please provide us with the latest copies of your academic transcript and resume outlining when you finish your studies.

At Airwallex you'll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you'll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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. We don't regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.



Software Engineer- New Graduates 2024