Airwallex

Senior Backend Engineer – Expenses

Airwallex

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $147,000 - $252,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of backend services, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and secure.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, setting the standard for engineering excellence across the team.
  • Drive technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews, fostering a culture of high quality engineering.
  • Design and maintain high-performance REST APIs, adhering to best practices in API design and security.
  • Proactively address system reliability, scalability, and observability, implementing the right monitoring and alerting strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high impact solutions.
  • Mentor and coach other engineers, guiding them on technical and architectural decisions.
  • Contribute to technical strategy and long term engineering roadmap.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
  • 6+ years of professional backend software development experience
  • Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals
  • Proven experience building and scaling RESTful APIs and working with modern backend technologies
  • Proficiency with at least one modern programming language (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, etc.)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality practices
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid time off
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Basic life insurance
  • Well-being benefits
  • 20 paid days of vacation
  • 12 paid days of company holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentREST APIsprogramming languagesJavaKotlinGoPythonCI/CDautomated testingcode quality practices
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationtechnical discussionsdesign reviewscode reviewscommunicationproblem-solvingcoachingstrategic thinking