Engineering Manager, Risk

Airwallex

Engineering Manager leading strategy and delivery of fraud management products at Airwallex. Involving hands-on leadership to develop teams and ensure operational excellence.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeSan Francisco • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $300 - $450 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsDockerGradleJavaKubernetesMavenSpringSpring BootSpringBootTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of real-time detection systems and client-facing fraud management products
Provide strategic leadership for a mission-critical fraud and risk platform
Work with PM, Design, Ops, Commercial, and Strategy teams
Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization
Partner closely with PM to define the roadmap and prioritize a measurable backlog
Serve as the accountable owner for architecture and system quality across services
Remain hands-on where it matters
Drive design and code quality: institute standards, reviews, and automated checks
Ensure cross-team collaboration with platform, data, SRE, security, and global engineering teams
Own operational excellence
Lead talent strategy: recruit, onboard, and develop engineers and managers

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in back-end engineering with 2+ years in engineering management
Risk management or Fintech product engineering experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, high-concurrency patterns, I/O/NIO, and network programming
Deep experience with distributed systems and high-availability, high-throughput architectures
Proficiency with Spring / Spring Boot, HTTP, TCP/IP, REST, and build tools such as Gradle / Maven
Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration

Benefits

Comp & perks

US-based employees are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) plan
Short-term and long-term disability
Basic life insurance
Well-being benefits
20 paid days of vacation
12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year

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Hard Skills & Tools

Javamulti-threadinghigh-concurrency patternsI/O/NIOnetwork programmingdistributed systemshigh-availability architectureshigh-throughput architecturesSpringSpring Boot

Soft Skills

strategic leadershipcross-team collaborationoperational excellencetalent strategyrecruitmentonboardingdevelopment