Airwallex Careers

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Responsibilities

• Develop predictive models to identify high-value users for Marketing and Commercial teams 
• Apply machine learning and/or statistical models to measure causal impact of Marketing initiatives 
• Develop attribution models to quantify the impact of different campaigns, channels, and other initiatives on conversions 
• Design and implement experiments to measure impact of ad spend, brand campaigns, and other Marketing initiatives
• Partner with Marketing, Commercial, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute GTM strategy and investment decisions

• 5+ years industry experience and an advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics) 
• Experience with communicating the results of analyses to executives and cross-functional teams to influence the strategy 
• Expert in data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R), experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling a plus
• Expert in machine learning and statistical modeling to drive data-informed decisions, experience with deploying production machine learning models a plus 
• Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Your Work:

We are building the next generation of fintech services. Our new Principal Engineer will have a unique opportunity to lead the design and implementation of this critical system, leveraging data, distributed systems, and AI to build advanced financial services, reduce risk and enhance our capabilities. The role spans the full SDLC from requirements capture, systems design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

Attracting world-class architectural talent is crucial to our long-term success. We are also keen to contribute to the broader external engineering community in the form of blogs, talks, and open source tools.

What You'll Do:

As a Principal Engineer, you will lead the selection and rollout of patterns and frameworks within your feature team. You will be expected to demonstrate leadership through the quality of your architectural work. In conjunction with your team's Engineering Lead, you will ensure that the way we build our solutions is of exceptional technical quality.

Our engineering team takes ownership of the technical construction of key systems. This role will see you making contributions to technologies and libraries that we depend on while leading the refactoring of complex systems and components.

Who You Are:

∙ A leader: Who enjoys formally coaching other team members. You strive to produce high quality and tested solutions in everything you do.

∙ You know API’s: From designing to building REST APIs.

∙ A team player: Fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across regions.

∙ A thought leader: Attracting other senior hires to the company through your knowledge sharing.

∙ A passionate problem solver: Weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team.

What You'll Bring:

∙ Strong computer science fundamentals.

∙ While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we prefer Java or Kotlin, Spring/Spring boot

∙ Experience in building and maintaining financial services or financial risk management systems

∙ Proven expertise in distributed systems, data-driven solutions, and AI

∙ Evidence of working on high volume distributed systems

∙ Hands on experience with event-driven architectures

∙ Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront etc) with Docker and Kubernetes

∙ Operational tooling such as Splunk, SignalFX, Prometheus.

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

What you will do:

Manage and grow a globally distributed product analytics team to conduct analytics studies and experimentations to shape a shared, data-informed strategic vision for Airwallex product team

Perform as a strategic thought leader for Data Science and cross-functional organizations

What you will bring:

10+ years industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field

5+ years of management experience in data science or other relevant quantitative functions

5+ years of experience communicating the results of analyses to leadership teams to influence the strategy

Passion for management and creating opportunities for career growth for team members

Demonstrated ability to create, drive and execute impactful data roadmaps for the business

Technical mentorship experience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting, large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop) and packages, such as R, Python, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc

Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

What you will do:

• Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations
• Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of business problems using different analytical and statistical approaches
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions

• 5+ years industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field
• Experience with communicating the results of analyses to executives and cross-functional teams to influence the strategy
• Expert in data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R), experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling a plus
• Ability to perform statistical analysis to drive data-informed decisions
• Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

About the role

Airwallex is building an industry-leading online payments infrastructure that helps merchants to collect credit card payments and other forms of payment from consumers around the world. This role will play a crucial role within the online payments product team to help our merchants to increase the success rate of card payments. Connecting the deep domain expertise of the team with data science, we are dynamically adjusting the card scheme messages and various verifications applied to the transaction to increase the chances of the issuing bank authorizing the payment.

Responsibilities:

• Work with online payments stakeholders across product, engineering and solutions engineering to drive payment success rate optimization strategies
• Mine and analyze card transaction data to identify optimization opportunities and build optimization hypotheses
• Design and execute experiments to validate and assess optimization hypotheses
• Develop multi-armed-bandit frameworks to dynamically adjust optimization strategies on a transactional level
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze payment success rate and data accuracy

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Math & Statistics, Finance & Economics, Engineering or related data disciplines
• 3-10 years of experience as data scientist or machine learning engineer with experience in either: Recommendation engines or Reinforcement learning models
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• A drive to learn about new domains and master techniques
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques, including multi-armed bandit problem solving
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, simulation, causal inference, etc.) and experience with applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English for coordinating across teams
• Experience with payment acquiring and optimization of card payment authorization rates preferred

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

As an ML engineer, you will work with a team of ML engineers on interesting ML problems in the risk management domain. You will build sophisticated features and models based on real world transaction data. We expect you to experiment with different features; try out various model architectures, from random forest, xgboost to DNN, LSTM and graph model; tune model performance; and build applications on top of models to achieve business values.

Responsibilities：

• Analyze business requirements and turn them into ML problems
• Work on feature engineering and model training
• Collaborate with different teams to apply models to business problems
• Be an expert about the cutting-edge ML technologies and be able to pick the right model architecture for our problems
• Coach junior ML engineers to grow and be more effective in their job

• At least 5 years's machine learning related working experience
• Modeling background in risk domain and fraud detection experience are a must
• Proficient in Python and/or a JVM language (Java, Scala, Kotlin)
• Experience with model training and ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, etc.
• Experience with big data frameworks, such as Flink or Spark
• Familiar with SQL

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.