Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform

ABOUT AIRWALLEX 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 250,000 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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. ABOUT THE TEAM The issuing engineering team at Airwallex builds and operates core systems for card issuing, transaction processing, and settlement at global scale. The team owns mission-critical platforms that underpin Airwallex’s issuing products, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and compliance. Key areas of ownership include: - Cards: Customer-facing and internal systems for card lifecycle management, controls, and configuration. - Transactions: A global, high-throughput transaction processing platform designed for low latency, high availability, and resiliency. - Settlement: Clearance, settlement, and dispute workflows that ensure financial accuracy and scheme compliance. WHAT YOU’LL DO As an Engineering Manager, Issuing Platform, you will lead one or more teams responsible for building and operating critical components of the issuing platform. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership. You will have direct reports and are accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and hands-on at an architectural level, your primary focus is enabling teams to do their best work rather than being the primary individual contributor. This role is based in Singapore. RESPONSIBILITIES: People leadership and team development - Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through regular feedback, performance management, and career development. - Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement. - Support hiring and onboarding to scale the team sustainably. Technical leadership and delivery - Provide technical direction and architectural guidance for high-impact transaction processing systems. - Partner with senior engineers and staff engineers to design scalable, resilient solutions. - Ensure high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Platform and infrastructure ownership - Guide the evolution of application and platform infrastructure to reduce operational overhead and improve developer productivity. - Drive improvements across reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency. Strategic collaboration - Work cl…