Engineering Lead – Onboarding

Airwallex

full-time

Posted on: 9/7/2025

Origin: • 🇸🇬 Singapore

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Senior

Distributed SystemsJavaKotlinMicroservices

About the role

Own the technical direction and people leadership of the Onboarding team.
Manage, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers; foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing environment.
Drive architecture and technical design for scalable KYC and onboarding systems.
Lead development of microservices in Java/Kotlin supporting identity verification, liveness checks, and risk-based operations.
Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Data, and Design 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.

8+ years in backend/distributed systems engineering.
2+ years of management experience.
Strong expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant microservices.
Experience with Java or Kotlin for microservices development.
Experience in fintech, onboarding, KYC, or compliance systems is a plus.
Experience with global identity verification, liveness checks, and risk-based operations is a plus.
Experience defining and measuring SLOs, improving observability, monitoring, and incident response.
Strong security practices including authentication/authorization and vulnerability management.
Data-driven analytical mindset.
Customer-centric with ability to balance security and UX.
Proven mentorship skills and commitment to raising engineering quality.
Clear communication skills across stakeholders.
Right to live and work in Singapore (application asks about work authorization).