Airwallex
Senior Software Engineer, Growth
$158K–$225K
US - San Francisco · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate backend services and AI-native growth platforms that support customer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion.
What you'll do
- Build scalable backend systems, APIs, distributed services, event-driven architectures, and real-time data processing capabilities.
- Develop AI-driven personalization, next-best actions, and automated workflows from customer and product signals.
- Own services end to end, including design, delivery, deployment, operations, reliability, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language; experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Spring Boot.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture, and ability to independently design, deliver, and operate complex backend solutions.
Nice to have
- Experience with growth platforms, experimentation, customer segmentation, marketing automation, or data-intensive applications.
- Experience building AI-powered applications or agentic workflows, including LLM integration, tool orchestration, evaluation, and production observability.
Pay
$158K – $225K (base salary); Offers Equity; Offers Bonus
Tools
Python, Java, Kotlin, FastAPI, Spring Boot, AWS, GCP, Docker
AI focus
Build AI-native growth capabilities and agentic workflows that use customer context and signals for personalization, next-best actions, and automated customer journeys and campaigns.
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