Staff Software Engineer, New Products

Company: Airwallex
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you collaborate with the CEO and leadership to turn high-level AI-enabled fintech strategies into market-ready software. You drive AI innovation for the platform, balance rapid prototyping with scalable design, and own end-to-end delivery across the stack. You help bootstrap future incubation projects into standalone product lines and shape the technical foundation of a fast-moving fintech initiative. This is a high-ownership role that shapes the next generation of global banking technology.

Pay / Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • Hybrid
  • Salary range 95,796–177,907
  • Paid time off
  • Well-being benefits

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the CEO and leadership to translate strategy into market-ready software (0-to-1 products)
  • Lead technical evaluation and implementation of AI technologies and intelligent workflows for the financial platform
  • Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
  • Own the full stack from data models to user interfaces
  • Bootstrap technical foundations for incubation projects and scale into standalone product lines

Key requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced environments
  • Strong product sense and focus on user experience and business impact
  • Comfort with ambiguity and ability to map technical specs from high-level direction
  • Pragmatic problem solver with self-direction and outcome‑oriented mindset
  • Deep backend and full-stack capabilities with ability to build frontend interfaces when needed
  • Clear communication with infrastructure teams and executive stakeholders
  • collaboration
  • curiosity
  • ownership
  • high-performance backend fundamentals
  • full-stack capability
  • Generative AI / LLMs / automated agent workflows

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Posted: September 14th, 2026