Engineering Manager, Risk

Airwallex

Engineering Manager leading fraud management products and strategies for global fintech leader Airwallex. Owning and delivering on systems that protect customers and improve risk management.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorLeadWebsite

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 that protect customers and revenue at global scale.
Provide strategic leadership for a mission-critical fraud and risk platform, aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
Work with PM, Design, Ops, Commercial and Strategy teams to shape the future of our fraud management products.
Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization (including managers and senior ICs): set goals, establish career paths, run performance and compensation processes, and cultivate a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.
Partner closely with PM to define the roadmap, prioritize a measurable backlog, and deliver outcomes that improve detection rates, reduce false positives, and minimize chargebacks.
Serve as the accountable owner for architecture and system quality across services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency for real-time decisioning under high load.
Remain hands-on where it matters: guide designs, review critical code and APIs, and de-risk complex initiatives with pragmatic technical deep dives.
Drive design and code quality: institute standards, reviews, and automated checks that raise the bar without slowing teams down.
Ensure cross-team collaboration with platform, data, SRE, security, and global engineering teams; remove blockers and foster clear interfaces, SLAs, and ownership.
Own operational excellence: on-call readiness, incident response, postmortems, observability, capacity planning, and continuous reliability improvements.
Lead talent strategy: recruit, onboard, and develop engineers and managers; build diverse teams and succession plans for sustained velocity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in back-end engineering with 2+ years in engineering management, including ownership of complex, distributed systems in production.
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 (caching, partitioning, consistency models, and resiliency patterns).
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

25 days annual leave
Private healthcare
Pension scheme
Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

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

Soft Skills

strategic leadershipcross-team collaborationtalent strategygoal settingperformance managementculture of ownershipinclusionexcellenceincident responseoperational excellence