Airwallex
Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic AI
$150K–$245K
US - San Francisco · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python at scale.
About the job
Build backend services and platform foundations for T:0’s AI-native financial systems, supporting agentic workflows, AI copilots, and real-time accounting infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build production-grade Python APIs and services, including reliability primitives such as queues, retries, and idempotency.
- Develop platform frameworks, SDKs, and tooling, and design feedback loops between product data, models, and system behavior.
- Partner with ML and product teams to productionize ideas into customer-facing systems and shape the AI-native financial stack.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python at scale.
- Deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database design.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices.
- Familiarity with GCP services; security, compliance, and production-service reliability experience.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic workflows, AI copilots, or AI-native products.
- Experience in financial systems or building internal platforms, frameworks, SDKs, or developer tooling.
Pay
$150K – $245K (base salary)
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQL, NoSQL, GCP, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run
AI focus
Build agentic workflows and AI copilots, connect product data and models through feedback loops, and productionize AI research for financial systems.
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