Senior Backend Engineer, Stablecoin Platform

Senior Backend Engineer, Stablecoin Platform

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You’re humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team The Financial Markets team is responsible for Airwallex’s core FX and liquidity infrastructure. We’re now expanding into building the stablecoin infrastructure that will enable both customers and internal systems to buy, hold, send, and settle with tokenised currency globally. This includes support for near-instant global payments, on-chain liquidity, and seamless conversion between fiat and stablecoin balances. We’re building stablecoins into the core of Airwallex’s infrastructure, so they function as seamlessly as any fiat currency across our global platform.

We’re seeking a skilled developer to take a leading role in advancing our initiatives. Someone who can both architect and build robust, reliable systems and tackle the challenges of blockchain integration, digital asset custody, and global payments infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• Be part of a high-impact engineering team building stablecoin infrastructure from the ground up.
• Design and implement secure systems for key management, transaction signing, gas fee management, and blockchain integration
• Own services that manage the full lifecycle of stablecoin transactions mint, burn, transfer, reconciliation
• Build internal ledgering systems that track balances across multiple chains and token types
• Integrate stablecoin infrastructure into Airwallex’s existing FX and payment systems, enabling seamless conversion between any supported currency and stablecoins
• Write, review, and ship production code
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and compliance teams to deliver reliable and auditable services

Responsibilities

Minimum qualifications:

• A highly experienced engineer (5+ years) with deep expertise in object-oriented design and production-grade software development, including at least one strongly typed language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, C#, C++, Rust); Python experience is useful but not sufficient on its own
• Proven experience building and integrating blockchain infrastructure (wallets, transaction flows, key management, etc.) into larger financial systems
• Experienced in integrating new systems into legacy or distributed environments without introducing instability or regressions.
• Strong grasp of secure system design, particularly around private key handling, signing, encryption, and operational controls
• Able to quickly pick up unfamiliar tools or frameworks when needed and adjust to changing technical priorities.
• Clear communicator who works well across engineering, product, and non-technical teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in FX, payments, or financial infrastructure is useful but not required