Senior Frontend Engineer, Scale

Airwallex
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 139K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Excel
API
Node.js
OAuth
Software Engineering
TypeScript
React
Backend
Front End Software Development
Api Design
Software Coding

Job description

  • Build Something That Matters: Your work directly impacts how millions of people use financial services. Companies like Rippling and SHEIN rely on infrastructure you'll build. You're not just writing code-you're shaping how businesses embed finance.
  • Grow Beyond Engineering: You'll develop expertise that extends beyond technical skills: understanding customer business models, navigating regulatory landscapes, influencing enterprise sales. This is career growth that prepares you for technical leadership, product roles, or even founding your own company.
  • Join a World-Class Team: Work with exceptional engineers, product thinkers, and designers across the globe. At Airwallex, you'll be challenged, supported, and surrounded by people who are building something meaningful together.

Compensation Range: £74,822 - £138,955 + bonus + RSU Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of software engineering experience in ReactJS & TypeScript
  • Excel at making the right level of abstraction-balancing flexibility and simplicity in system/component design
  • Demonstrate clean communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Make pragmatic decisions on when to optimize for performance vs. velocity based on business impact
  • Thrive in cross-functional environments spanning Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales
  • Design for scale, maintainability, and production excellence

Bonus if you have

  • Fintech, payments, or regulated industry experience
  • Experience with OAuth2.0, API design, or developer documentation
  • Solutions engineering or customer-facing technical experience
  • Experience building BFF services or API aggregation layers (Node.js or similar)
  • Comfort working across the stack-taking on scoped backend tasks when it improves delivery speed
  • Strong product sensibility and user empathy, with experience incorporating user research into technical decisions

About the company

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. What the Scale Team Does * Embedded Finance Platform: Build and maintain the multi-tenant infrastructure powering companies like Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. You'll architect systems that aggregate requests from all platform customers, meeting enterprise-grade SLAs for availability, latency, and throughput while handling cross-data-center scenarios. * Cross-Domain Product Features: Own features that require synthesizing knowledge across business, regulatory, and technical domains-areas where no single existing team has full coverage, like tax systems, compliance-driven flows, or monetization tools. * Solutions Architecture: Design integrations for enterprise prospects by translating their business requirements into technical solutions. Your architectural decisions directly influence deal outcomes-from enabling multi-million dollar contracts to differentiating in competitive sales.

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