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The Onboarding team is at the core of Airwallex’s mission. We play a pivotal role in enabling Airwallex’s global growth. We build KYC and verification systems. Our goal is to reduce barriers to entry, enhance compliance and security, and enable global expansion for our customers. As Engineering Lead, you will own both the technical direction and the people leadership of the Onboarding team. You’ll be collaborating across Product, Risk, Data, and Design to ensure we deliver customer-first solutions that unlock growth worldwide. You will set technical direction, and guide a team of engineers to deliver scalable, secure onboarding infrastructure that empowers businesses worldwide.
Job Responsibility:
Manage, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers
Drive architecture and technical design for scalable KYC and onboarding systems
Lead development of microservices in Java/Kotlin, supporting global identity verification, liveness checks, and risk-based operations
Partner with Product, Risk, and Compliance teams to align technical solutions with regulatory requirements and customer experience
Define and measure SLOs for reliability and performance
Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response
Champion secure coding practices, robust authentication/authorization, and proactive vulnerability management
Explore automation and AI-driven solutions to scale onboarding and enhance fraud detection
Requirements:
8+ years in backend/distributed systems engineering
2+ years of management experience
Strong expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant microservices
Experience in fintech, onboarding, KYC, or compliance systems is a plus
Empathetic toward customer onboarding pain points
balance security and UX
Strong analytical mindset, leveraging data to improve systems and outcomes
Committed to growing engineers and raising engineering quality
Able to translate technical concepts for stakeholders at all levels
Proactive, accountable, and able to drive projects to success end-to-end
Nice to have:
Experience in fintech, onboarding, KYC, or compliance systems is a plus
What we offer:
Impact: Shape Airwallex’s onboarding engine
Growth: Build your leadership career in a fast-paced, innovative fintech
Collaboration: Work with world-class engineers, product leaders, and compliance experts
Innovation: Drive adoption of AI, data, and automation in onboarding