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Senior Software Engineer, Scale (Frontend)

Airwallex - Singapore, Singapore - In-office - posted 2026-10-21

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Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system serving over 675,000 businesses globally, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok. The company provides regulated financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, with co-headquarters in San Francisco and Singapore and 2,300+ employees across 27 offices. In this role, you will build frontend experiences and platform capabilities that enable companies to embed Airwallex financial products at speed and with confidence. You'll work with ReactJS and TypeScript to support multi-tenant systems, cross-domain product features, and enterprise integrations serving global customers such as Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. Key responsibilities include: - Building frontend capabilities for multi-tenant platforms, balancing tenant isolation with resource efficiency and long-term extensibility - Owning cross-domain product features that integrate business, regulatory, and technical requirements - Designing enterprise integrations by translating customer business needs into scalable technical solutions - Partnering with Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales teams to convert complex requirements into clear, reliable experiences - Making pragmatic trade-offs between performance, maintainability, and delivery speed based on business impact The Scale team builds infrastructure enabling platforms to embed Airwallex financial products with confidence. The team owns multi-tenant systems powering major companies and faces real engineering challenges: balancing tenant isolation with resource efficiency, low-latency performance with cross-data-center resilience, and immediate customer needs with long-term architectural extensibility. You'll work from the Singapore office five days a week. REQUIREMENTS: Essentials: - 5+ years of software engineering experience with ReactJS and TypeScript - Strong judgment in choosing the right level of abstraction, balancing flexibility and simplicity in system and component design - Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders - Pragmatic decision-making on when to optimize for performance versus velocity based on business impact - Experience thriving in cross-functional environments spanning Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales - Track record of designing for scale, maintainability, and production excellence Preferred: - Experience in fintech, payments, or another regulated industry - Experience tuning performance at high scale (100k+ QPS, large user bases, or strict latency SLAs) - Background in multi-tenant SaaS or platform architecture - Proficiency with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) - Experience with OAuth 2.0, API design, or developer documentation - Experience with cross-region deployment or data residency compliance - Solutions engineering or customer-facing technical experience

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