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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Lead the global technical accounting function, providing US GAAP oversight for complex transactions, product launches, reporting, and judgmental estimates. Develop accounting policies, oversee SOX compliant internal controls, prepare PCAOB compliant technical memos, and support regional finance teams. Drive controllership modernization through workflow automation, AI adoption, and implementation of new accounting standards while partnering with Product, Business, and Finance teams in a high growth environment.
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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Leads independent monitoring of Airwallex’s global financial crime compliance framework, assessing AML and sanctions controls, identifying gaps and emerging risks, and driving remediation. The role builds risk-based monitoring across key FCC areas, reports program effectiveness and risk exposure to senior leadership and the Board, and partners with FCC, MLRO, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, and Technology stakeholders.
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Leads Airwallex’s global Onboarding and Financial Crime Operations organization across KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, investigations, and periodic reviews. Owns strategy, staffing, operating procedures, performance management, controls, documentation, and continuous improvement across multiple jurisdictions. Partners with Compliance, Risk Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams to balance risk, customer experience, scalability, and cost. Drives AI and automation transformation, manages outsourced capacity, and ensures consistent operational execution across markets.
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About Airwallex
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 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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 Knowledge Platform team is at the heart of our company's data and AI strategy. We are building the foundational infrastructure that empowers the entire company to leverage data, AI, and ML into business impact. We accomplish this by creating platforms that handle the entire data and AI/ML lifecycle, simplifying the interface while providing proper safety and governance. This includes managing our data infrastructure (Databricks, Spark, Kafka, etc.), the technology to serve that data to our users (RAG, MCP, etc.), and the platform to host and govern these AI/ML models.
In 2026, our team's overarching mission is to evolve our full data ecosystem-encompassing both platform and models-into a fully AI agent-ready infrastructure; we will empower customers to engage directly with the data platform to extract actionable value through capabilities like analytics and natural language querying, while also upgrading the platform to deliver robust, real-time performance for instant, data-driven decision-making.
What you'll do
In this role, you will lead the architecture and construction of core infrastructure components, taking full ownership of technical decision-making and custom development from foundational storage to high-availability service layers. You will perform deep-dives into systems internals and performance tuning-focusing on state management, checkpointing, and exactly-once semantics-to ensure millisecond-level accuracy and reliability across 30+ global regions. A significant portion of your impact will involve developing the "Knowledge Platform" to power AI-driven products through scalable vector indexing, agentic workflows, and real-time data streaming.
Beyond the initial build, you will own the full SDLC for high-performance distributed systems that process petabytes of data at a global scale. As a champion of engineering rigor, you will advocate for elite software practices and contribute to shared tooling, SDKs, and automation frameworks that enhance productivity across the entire organization. Finally, you will serve as a technical beacon and mentor for mid-level engineers, driving high-quality project delivery through meticulous design reviews and hands-on technical leadership.
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco.
Who you are:
Preferred Qualifications:
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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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 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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 Knowledge Platform team is at the heart of our company's data and AI strategy. We are building the foundational infrastructure that empowers the entire company to leverage data, AI, and ML into business impact. We accomplish this by creating platforms that handle the entire data and AI/ML lifecycle, simplifying the interface while providing proper safety and governance. This includes managing our data infrastructure (Databricks, Spark, Kafka, etc.), the technology to serve that data to our users (RAG, MCP, etc.), and the platform to host and govern these AI/ML models.
In 2026, our team's overarching mission is to evolve our full data ecosystem-encompassing both platform and models-into a fully AI agent-ready infrastructure; we will empower customers to engage directly with the data platform to extract actionable value through capabilities like analytics and natural language querying, while also upgrading the platform to deliver robust, real-time performance for instant, data-driven decision-making.
What you'll do
In this role, you will lead the architecture and construction of core infrastructure components, taking full ownership of technical decision-making and custom development from foundational storage to high-availability service layers. You will perform deep-dives into systems internals and performance tuning-focusing on state management, checkpointing, and exactly-once semantics-to ensure millisecond-level accuracy and reliability across 30+ global regions. A significant portion of your impact will involve developing the "Knowledge Platform" to power AI-driven products through scalable vector indexing, agentic workflows, and real-time data streaming.
Beyond the initial build, you will own the full SDLC for high-performance distributed systems that process petabytes of data at a global scale. As a champion of engineering rigor, you will advocate for elite software practices and contribute to shared tooling, SDKs, and automation frameworks that enhance productivity across the entire organization. Finally, you will serve as a technical beacon and mentor for mid-level engineers, driving high-quality project delivery through meticulous design reviews and hands-on technical leadership.
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco.
Who you are:
- Experience: Have 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
- First Principles Thinking: Possess a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, memory management, and networking protocols.
- The "Builder" Stack: Are proficient in Java, Kotlin, or Go. You should have hands-on experience (or the desire to deep-dive) into the internals of Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, or OLAP engines.
- Ownership Mindset: Have a proven track record of taking 0-1 ownership of complex technical challenges, from initial design to production stability.
- Curiosity & Impact: Are intrinsically motivated to explore emerging tech in AI/ML infrastructure and real-time systems to create tangible business impact.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on design experience in crafting data processing patterns for a modern Lakehouse architecture.
- Contribute to the design and development of standard framework modules, high-performance services, and client libraries for big data using tools like GCP, Databricks, BigQuery, DataProc, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, DataFlow, Google Cloud Storage, and Airflow.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
- Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.
- Experience thriving in a complex environment.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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Airwallex San Francisco, California, USA Office
Airwallex San Francisco, US Office
188 Spear Street’s superior location is two blocks from the Embarcadero, the promenade running along the SF waterfront, and offers exceptional views and convenience through its easy access to BART, Muni, ferries, the Transbay Terminal, the Bay Bridge and all major freeways.
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This is not just another sales role. It is a chance to sell a proven global platform, shape how we win across the Americas, and do career-defining work. You get the product, the territory, and the support to build real momentum.
AI Engineering
Our SF AI Engineering team at Airwallex is building production-grade AI that automates the hardest parts of global finance — from payments and onboarding to reconciliation, bookkeeping, and tax. Sitting on top of our proprietary global payments infrastructure and massive real-time transaction datasets, we design and ship vertical AI systems — from LLM-powered copilots and agentic workflows to fine-tuned models — that reach customers quickly and at scale. We’re a small, senior, zero-ego group with high ownership: engineers work end to end from problem framing and experimentation through to deployment and evals, using the right tool for the job to turn deep AI work into visible, shipped impact.
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