Engineering Manager, Org & Identity

About the role

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT

You’ll lead the team building and evolving Airwallex’s core identity and organization foundations, including user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modelling, account ownership and org-level workflows.

- Set the technical direction for highly available, scalable and secure identity systems that every Airwallex product can depend on.

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, Onboarding and Engineering teams to deliver trusted IAM capabilities and solve complex platform problems.

- Raise the bar on engineering excellence, including code quality, system design, performance, reliability and security, while supporting the team’s growth and delivery.

- Use data to measure system and product effectiveness, identify opportunities for optimisation and guide decisions that create long-term value.

- Build intuitive identity and access-management solutions that meet customer security needs without compromising usability.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

ESSENTIALS

- Significant experience in software development, with a strong focus on high availability, access control, authentication and authorisation, or identity management.

- Experience leading and developing engineers while maintaining high standards for technical execution and engineering quality.

- Strong technical judgement and the ability to design and deliver robust, secure and scalable systems.

- A strategic, forward-looking approach, with the ability to make decisions that create long-term value for the business and technology landscape.

- A customer-focused mindset and an understanding of how to build intuitive identity and access-management solutions without compromising security.

- A data-driven and analytical approach to measuring system and product effectiveness and identifying opportunities for optimisation.