Airwallex
Staff Software Engineer, Productivity
$163K–$260K
US - Seattle · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads strategy and delivery for developer productivity platforms and AI-powered tools that help Airwallex engineers build, deploy, and operate software more efficiently.
What you'll do
- Build and improve developer platforms across tooling, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, messaging, and workflow automation.
- Define and deploy AI-powered developer productivity solutions, and measure improvements to developer experience.
- Set technical direction, shape architecture and engineering practices, review designs, and mentor engineers across teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure at scale.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, or Node.js, and experience with relevant frameworks.
- Experience designing large-scale distributed systems and defining technical strategy and architecture.
- Hands-on cloud and infrastructure experience, plus technical leadership across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience using AI, machine learning, or LLM integrations to improve developer workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-powered development tools such as Cursor or Copilot.
Pay
$163K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Rust, Node.js, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Defines and deploys AI-powered developer productivity solutions, including AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent build optimization, and agent-based root-cause analysis.
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