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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Lead, Payment Infrastructure - **Company:** Airwallex - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Payment Systems, Systems Integration, Dynamic Routing, System Availability, Api Management - **Published:** July 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5814831046 ## About the Role * 10+ years of product management experience in a high-growth environment, with a significant portion of that time dedicated to fintech, payment platforms, or core infrastructure products. * Deep domain expertise: Strong understanding of global payment systems, card networks, clearing and settlement processes, and double-entry ledger architecture. * Technical fluency: The ability to engage confidently in complex architectural discussions alongside engineering counterparts around high-scale, highly available, mission-critical systems. * Exceptional communication skills: The ability to translate deeply technical infrastructure strategy into clear business value for cross-functional and non-technical stakeholders. * Analytical rigour: A sharp eye for detail, structured problem-solving skills, and a data-driven mindset to track system performance, authorization rates, and unit economics. * Bias for action: Grit, persistence, and ownership to turn complex, multi-layered infrastructural challenges into shipped solutions quickly. * Bachelor's degree or higher, with strong academic performance; technical or engineering coursework is a strong plus. * Experience building or scaling external-facing API products. * Previous experience directly managing banking and payment network partnerships or navigating global regulatory compliance constraints. ## Description As a Product Lead, Payment Infrastructure, you will play a defining role in shaping the core engines that power how money moves across our ecosystem. You'll lead our Payments Product team, focusing on building, integrating, and optimizing the fundamental clearing and settlement platforms, ledgers, and banking integrations that interface with card networks, local payment rails (e.g., ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT), and our merchants' wallets. As we grow and scale our transaction volume worldwide, this platform must be robust, cost-efficient, resilient, and built to handle massive scale. In this role, you will lead key initiatives end-to-end, including: * Building & Scaling Core Payment Rails: Expanding our global footprint by integrating directly with new payment schemes, banking partners, and clearing systems to enable instant, low-cost money movement worldwide. * Optimizing Global Payment Flows: Enhancing platform capabilities-such as intelligent dynamic routing, automated failovers, fee netting, and smart batching-to maximize authorization rates, improve settlement speed, and reduce cost per transaction. * Strengthening Foundational Infrastructure: Driving the evolution of our ledger and reconciliation systems. You will ensure high availability, liquidity management, and absolute precision for financial reporting and regulatory compliance. * Designing Scalable Developer Experiences: Crafting highly reliable, elegant internal and external APIs that abstract away the complexity of global banking, allowing other product teams to build seamlessly on top of your infrastructure. 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