Senior AI Engineer

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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. 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

As the senior engineer in our new Generative AI team, you will own the end-to-end development of AI-driven solutions that redefine how we provide support and automation for both internal teams and external customers. You will shape the underlying architecture and APIs for advanced systems building cutting-edge AI solutions that enable Airwallex to scale. Your contributions will directly influence innovation, set best practices, and establish the foundation for our expanding AI portfolio.

What you’ll do

If you are passionate about building AI solutions that directly impact customers, thrive on solving tough technical challenges, and embrace a product-focused mindset, we invite you to shape the future of Finance and AI with us.

Responsibilities:

• Build AI solutions to enable growth and drive internal efficiency across the business.

• Design and implement robust API and system architecture for new AI applications.

• Collaborate closely with a cross-functional team to bring these AI solutions to life.

• Embrace the challenges of a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a focus on innovation.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years in backend software development, with a focus on AI.

• Experience building internal or customer-facing products with LLMs.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Expertise in building efficient, large-scale software systems.

• Skill in writing high-quality, maintainable code. 

• Experience in design and development of large-scale distributed, high concurrency, high load, high availability systems;

• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

• A relevant degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with MLOps practices and deployment pipelines for AI-driven products.

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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.