Grad Software Engineer roles at Airwallex
Greg Thom
Empowering modern businesses to grow beyond borders
The world as we know it is no longer the same. Changes now occur in days and months, not years. The digital revolution is here, and Airwallex is at the centre, facilitating the transformation of businesses from offline to online, from local to global.
Airwallex was built with a single purpose in mind – to create a world where all businesses can operate without borders and restrictions, and by doing so, propel the growth of the global digital economy.
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 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
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About the team
The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.
What you’ll do
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 organisation as Airwallex continues to scale across the globe.
At Airwallex, you’ll get unparalleled opportunities to kickstart your career and contribute to shaping the future of global finance on one platform. You will work with a top global engineering team, applying best practices in software engineering with a strong emphasis on engineering fundamentals and pragmatism shared by all our engineers.
This role is based in Singapore.
We are looking for talented, curious and determined individuals to join us full time starting in July / August 2025.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
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:
Have graduated in 2024 or will be graduating in 2025 from a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
Have less than a year of full-time software engineering experience (excluding internships).
Have desire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist.
Enjoy solving complex problems by designing systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry.
Write clean, high-quality code and think critically about how systems and services interact. While we primarily use Kotlin, we value your problem-solving ability and engineering mindset over specific language expertise.
Hold yourself and others to high standards when working with production systems, ensuring adherence to best practices in engineering, security, and design.
Thrive in collaboration, working with different stakeholders and subject matter experts. 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with Spring / Spring Boot
Familiarity 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
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