Senior Software Engineer, Yield

About the Team

The Yield Team is the strategic force behind our investment product-a solution that empowers businesses to earn competitive returns on their idle cash without the restrictions of traditional term deposits. Following our recent market launch, we are focused on leveraging this flexibility to drive customer stickiness and long-term engagement.

As one of the fastest growing business units at Airwallex, Yield operates like a startup within a startup, offering unparalleled opportunities for innovation and career growth. We are expanding aggressively on a global scale. The role is based in Sydney.

What you'll do

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Yield team, you will design and build the high integrity backend systems that allow businesses to earn returns on their idle cash with total liquidity.

• Contribute to the architecture and long term technical vision of our backend systems, helping define the engineering strategy and framework selection for the Yield squad.

• Own the end to end delivery of core investment workflows, including client signup, investment, and redemption processes-from design to production.

• Build and maintain mission critical financial infrastructure, such as reconciliation controls, unit registries, and investment ledgers.

• Write high quality, testable code with a focus on reliability and maintainability, ensuring seamless integration with our external investment providers.

• Promote and uphold engineering best practices, with a strong emphasis on observability, API design, and robust integration rails.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams including Product, Infrastructure, and Design to ensure our product delivers the best possible experience for businesses.

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 of professional software engineering experience.

• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or software engineering related majors.

• Have experience solving distributed systems challenges - scalability, consistency, latency.

• Mastery of backend technologies is essential. While we do not mind what language you have most recently been using, we are using Kotlin w/ vert.x, Temporal & Kafka.

• Experience working with automated tests and been involved in quality control processes.

• Cloud technologies experience with GCP or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.

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.