Senior IT Engineer, Workplace
IT Engineer · Senior · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
As a Senior IT Engineer focused on Workplace Infrastructure at Airwallex, you will own and optimize the collaboration tool stack including Slack, Google Workspace, and Zoom for a globally distributed team of 2,200+ employees. This technical, hands-on role requires designing integrations, managing complex migrations, and leveraging AI to solve enterprise-scale collaboration challenges while partnering with Finance, Legal, and Engineering teams across 26 international offices.
Responsibilities
- Slack Platform Ownership and Development: Design, develop, and optimize Slack integrations, workflows, apps, and services as the primary owner and subject matter expert (SME) on the Slack platform for Airwallex. Build custom bots and automations that enhance team collaboration and productivity across the organization's 2,200+ employees globally.
- Google Workspace and Zoom Optimization: Design, develop, and optimize Google Workspace and Zoom services, connecting these platforms using APIs, technical tools, and custom code. Ensure seamless integration between collaboration surfaces, managing authentication, user provisioning, and advanced workspace configurations.
- Data Migration and Integration Engineering: Develop custom scripts and leverage low-code/no-code solutions to migrate and manage data between collaboration platforms including Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and JIRA. Execute complex migrations during mergers and acquisitions to integrate new teams into the Airwallex ecosystem.
- Automation and AI-Enhanced Workflows: Build intelligent bots, workflows, and automations that connect collaboration tools while leveraging AI models to enhance performance. Evaluate and deploy AI technologies across the business, enabling teams to work smarter and faster within core products and services.
- Platform Security, Scalability, and Operations: Regularly assess and ensure collaboration tools operate securely and scalably across multiple regions and time zones. Work closely with INFOSEC and Revenue Operations teams to maintain compliance, security standards, and operational excellence across the global infrastructure.
- Cross-Functional Problem-Solving and Collaboration: Collaborate extensively across Finance, Legal, Operations, Support, and Sales teams to understand business requirements and solve complex collaboration challenges. Manage ambiguity by translating vague problems into well-architected technical solutions that drive business outcomes.
- Technical Support and On-Call Operations: Serve on the IT Engineering team, handling escalations from support teams and providing expert technical guidance. Participate in on-call rotations and maintain a 'build it, own it' mentality for all solutions developed, ensuring continuity and system reliability.
- Custom Solution Development: Write and build custom solutions when commercial products fall short of organizational needs. Evaluate build versus buy decisions based on technical requirements, timeline, cost, and long-term maintainability for Airwallex-specific challenges.
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Slack Platform Expertise
5+ years of demonstrable experience as the primary owner of Slack, with deep technical knowledge of Slack APIs, app development, workflow automation, and advanced configuration at scale.
Google Workspace Administration and Development
5+ years of hands-on experience with Google Workspace products including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Meet. Strong expertise in identity management, API integration, and advanced administrative controls.
Programming and Scripting
Hands-on coding experience with automation tools and REST APIs. Proficiency with Python or similar programming languages, JSON data manipulation, and scripting for enterprise platform automation.
Cloud Platform Deployment
Knowledge and experience deploying code and services to cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS. Familiarity with serverless functions, deployment pipelines, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
Integration and Automation Platforms
Demonstrated experience building and administering integrations with common SaaS platforms including Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence), Slack, Google Workspace, and Zoom. Experience with low-code/no-code integration tools such as Workato, Tray, or Mulesoft.
Data Migration and ETL
Demonstrated expertise in data migration strategies, ETL processes, and safe data management between collaboration platforms. Experience executing complex migrations during system upgrades and organizational consolidations.
IT Operations and Infrastructure
Strong foundational knowledge of IT Operations, IT support structures, global team operations, and escalation management. Understanding of how IT teams support enterprise organizations and solve operational challenges at scale.
Education
Relevant Technical Background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience demonstrating equivalent technical knowledge and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience
Corporate Platform Engineering
5+ years in corporate platform or collaboration services engineering roles, specifically with cloud-first and SaaS-based collaboration solutions. Proven track record of managing enterprise-scale collaboration deployments.
Product Ownership and Technical Leadership
5+ years of demonstrable experience as the primary owner of a core collaboration product such as Slack or Google Workspace, with ability to speak confidently to technical details, architecture decisions, and operational challenges.
Enterprise Integration Projects
Hands-on experience designing and executing integration projects, building custom bots, developing automation workflows, and managing complex technical solutions for enterprise environments.
Global Technology Operations
Experience working in globally distributed organizations across multiple time zones, including participation in on-call support rotations and serving as a subject matter expert for critical systems.
Skills
Required
Slack API and App Development
Deep expertise in Slack API, Slack App Framework, Block Kit, and workflow automation. Ability to design and implement custom Slack applications, integrations, and complex workflow automations.
Google Workspace Administration
Advanced proficiency with Google Workspace administration console, user provisioning, security policies, and integration with third-party identity and access management systems.
Python Programming
Strong hands-on Python programming skills for building automation scripts, integration tools, and custom solutions. Experience with common libraries and frameworks for API-driven automation.
REST APIs and JSON
Strong understanding of REST API architecture, JSON data formats, and API integration patterns. Ability to design and consume APIs for integrating disparate systems and platforms.
Technical Communication
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to convey complex technical solutions to both technical engineers and non-technical business stakeholders through documentation, presentations, and asynchronous communication.
AI/ML Concepts and Deployment
Clear understanding of common AI models, machine learning concepts, and practical experience evaluating and deploying AI tools in enterprise environments. Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and self-direct technical exploration.
Cloud Platform Services
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, including cloud functions, App Engine, Lambda, and other serverless compute services for deploying integration solutions.
Preferred
Low-Code/No-Code Integration Platforms
Nice to haveExperience with enterprise integration platforms such as Workato, Tray.io, or MuleSoft for rapid integration development without extensive custom coding.
Zoom Administration and Development
Nice to haveExperience with Zoom API, Zoom App Marketplace, and advanced Zoom administration including SSO integration, user provisioning, and custom integrations.
Identity and Access Management
Nice to haveKnowledge of identity management systems, SSO protocols (SAML, OAuth), directory services, and federated identity management for enterprise environments.
Atlassian Ecosystem Knowledge
Nice to haveExperience with Atlassian products including Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. Understanding of Atlassian Cloud architecture and REST APIs.
Generative AI Tools and Models
Nice to haveHands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), ChatGPT, Claude, or similar generative AI platforms. Experience building prompts, evaluating AI tools for enterprise use, and implementing AI-powered features.
DevOps and CI/CD Practices
Nice to haveFamiliarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version control systems for managing complex technical projects.
Information Security Fundamentals
Nice to haveWorking knowledge of information security principles, compliance frameworks, data protection standards, and security best practices in enterprise IT environments.
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 150,000 – 250,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Global Career Growth Opportunities
Work across Airwallex's 26 international offices and collaborate with 2,200+ talented technology professionals. Access extensive professional development and leadership mentoring from founding-stage to scale-up expertise.
Equity and Long-Term Compensation
Participate in Airwallex's equity program as a valued member of a $8 billion venture-backed company. Build long-term wealth alongside world-class investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, and Sequoia Capital.
Flexible Work Arrangements
Choose your base location between San Francisco, Sydney, or Melbourne with flexibility to work across time zones. Airwallex supports hybrid and remote collaboration for distributed global teams.
Cutting-Edge Technology Stack
Work with modern cloud infrastructure, AI technologies, and SaaS platforms at enterprise scale. Drive innovation by evaluating and deploying emerging technologies across the organization.
Meaningful Impact and Ownership
Own critical systems that directly enable 200,000+ Airwallex customers worldwide. Build zero-to-one solutions, drive key business outcomes, and experience 'build it, own it' accountability.
Mission-Driven Culture
Join a founder-led organization building the global financial platform of the future. Work on ambitious problems with exceptional teammates motivated by the mission to democratize global payments.
Competitive Benefits Package
Comprehensive health insurance, retirement plans, professional development budgets, and wellness programs supporting work-life integration across all global offices.
Full posting
Original listing.
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 2,200 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
Corporate IT builds and runs the technology Airwallex runs on — laptops, identity, collaboration, automation, AI. We partner with every team in the company, from Finance to Engineering, to solve hard problems and build new solutions. We remove friction from technology, provide world-class support, and drive outcomes that help Airwallex move faster and go further.
What you’ll do
As an IT Engineer, you’ll work in our IT Engineering function, owning our collaboration tool stack. You’ll be the primary owner of our Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and our collaboration surfaces our Airwallex uses to connect with our customers and work together every day. This is a technical, hands-on role, using code, integrations, clickops, command line, terminals and more. You’ll be an expert and own much of our Google Workspace operations, ensuring we build and manage a complex footprint across Google products and bring them all together with Identity engineering. You’ll need to be intensely curious, and relentless about solving hard problems. You’ll build integrations and workflows that solve our problems. You’ll work closely with INFOSEC, Revenue Operations and other IT teams across the world, ensuring we build secure and scalable solutions across the many regions where we operate. You’ll also drive onboarding and enablement of AI products and features in and around these products, experimenting, trialing and finally leveraging these tools to work faster, and drive your own results farther.
This role will focus and own our Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and collaboration platforms we use at Airwallex, and will work on other projects.
This role is based in San Francisco, Sydney, or Melbourne.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, optimize Slack integrations, workflows, apps and services – you will be the primary owner and SME on Slack for Airwallex
Design, develop, optimise Google Workspace and Zoom, connecting those services and platforms, using APIs and technical tools and code
Develop custom scripts or use low/no-code or third-party solutions to move and manage data between collaboration platforms (Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, JIRA, etc.)
Build bots, workflows, automations that connect with these tools, and leveraging AI models to enhance performance
Regularly assess and ensure our collaboration tools work how we need them to – ensuring secure and scalable growth
Manage through ambiguity, able to take vague problems and build solutions with strong intuition on the right path forward
Run complex migrations and integrations from mergers and acquisitions, helping to bring in new teams to Airwallex
Collaborate extensively across the business, with key teams in Finance, Legal, Operations, Support, Sales etc. to solve their problems, and help them use these products to move faster and support our growth
Write and build custom solutions where products fall short – solve Airwallex problems either by building or buying
Serve on the IT Engineering team, helping with escalations from Support and leveraging your all-round knowledge to solve other problems as needed
Drive key AI outcomes, evaluating, deploying, enabling teams to use AI technology across our business, and within our core products we support
Who you are
5+ years in a corporate platform or collaboration services engineer role, using cloud-first/SaaS based collaboration solutions
5+ years with demonstrable experience as the “primary owner” of a core product – Slack or Google Workspace, able to speak to technical detail
Extremely strong written and verbal communication, able to convey an idea or solution to technical and non-technical audiences in chat, documents or zoom
Demonstrated experience with data migration, automation scripts, custom build integrations, bots and workflows
Clear and demonstrated understanding of common AI models and tools, able to speak to examples of deployment and daily use of these tools, with a strong ability to learn new concepts and technology quickly and self-directed
Hands-on coding experience with automation tools and APIs; experience with JSON, REST APIs, Python or similar technologies.
Experience with low-code/no-code tools (i.e. Workato, Tray, Mulesoft) a plus, but not required
Demonstrated experience building/administering integrations with common tech startup platforms: Atlassian, Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, etc.
Knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms and deploying code or services to them (Google Cloud, AWS) and key services within (Cloud Function, etc.)
Strong knowledge and experience in IT Operations, understanding how global teams work and how IT support functions, escalations happen, and how to solve problems
Comfortable working in a global org, with in-person and remote collaboration across multiple time zones
Able to participate in on-call rotations, and serve as an SME for primary tools or solutions they build (“build it, own it” mentality)
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
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.
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.
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