Engineering Lead, GTPN Platform (Seoul)

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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 2,300 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 to see it in full.

About the Team

The GTPN Platform engineering team at Airwallex builds and operates the core platform capabilities that power global treasury and payment products at scale. The team owns shared backend systems, services, and technical foundations that enable product teams to build, launch, and operate reliable, scalable, and high-performing solutions. The team focuses on platform architecture, developer enablement, system reliability, and continuous optimization to support product innovation and operational excellence.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Lead, GTPN Platform, this role leads engineering team responsible for building and operating critical platform capabilities that support Airwallex’s financial products. The role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.

This role is accountable for team health, execution quality, and long-term technical outcomes. It requires close partnership with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape platform strategy, drive prioritization, and deliver scalable solutions aligned with customer and business needs.

This role is based in Seoul.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, development, and operation of GTPN platform systems.

• Manage and develop a high-performing engineering team.

• Drive technical design and key architectural decisions for scalable and reliable services.

• Contribute to code reviews, technical problem-solving, and critical implementation work where needed.

• Maintain high standards for engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business needs.

• Use data and system insights to improve performance, reliability, and team effectiveness.

Who you are

We are looking for engineering manager with deep technical expertise and a strong track record of impact as a tech lead.

Minimum qualifications:

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong software engineering and system architecture background, with 8+ years of experience in modern engineering environments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong technical judgment and ability to guide teams building scalable, reliable systems.

• Effective people leader with experience coaching and developing engineers.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and execution skills.

• Data-driven, customer-aware, and quality-focused.

• High ownership, sound prioritization, and adaptability in fast-paced environments.

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Equal opportunity

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 color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.