Airwallex

Industry

FinTech

Company's IT Job Opportunities, Work Culture and Environment

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.
Gain hands-on experience through owning your own project end to end
Benefit from personal mentorship by industry leading technologists
Rare software engineering experience where you’re on the tools
Join a cohort experience that fosters knowledge sharing, networking and soft skill development
Airwallex’s early careers programs are recognised in Australia’s Top Graduate and Top Intern Employers lists, as well as feature highly on Employer League.
Many of our Interns receive an Airwallex Graduate role at intern program completion
About the team
The Engineering team at Airwallex is a diverse group of innovators, builders, and problem solvers, driven by a mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the financial technology space. As a team, we value technical craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership, working together to build scalable, reliable, and secure products that empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.
What You'll Do:
As an Engineer, you will be given an exciting and challenging project that you'll start in week 1. You'll be set up with a mentor and manager to make sure you have the best experience and that you are encouraged and supported to contribute. Most importantly, we want you to feel part of the team and learn lots while you are working with us!
Our leaders welcome all Airwallex people to contribute to our roadmap and to constantly challenge the processes that we build our platforms through. You'll get the opportunity to learn and apply best-practice software engineering, focusing on strong software engineering fundamentals and pragmatism from our engineers.
We have ambitious goals, cutting edge technology and multiple opportunities to come in and start delivering simple and effective engineering led solutions to our customers. Our tech stack (Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes and React) is built to be flexible, architecturally designed to be scalable and event driven at its core.
At Airwallex we like to ensure we create the best environment for our people providing a collaborative open office space, PlayStation and table tennis to unwind, a fully stocked kitchen which includes breakfast, snacks, fruit, beers, you name it! We also organise regular team building events, encourage flexible/hybrid working and offer learning and development opportunities. Most importantly, we give our people the freedom to be creative.
Our internship program is full time hours over the 12 week program with at least 3 days a week required in the office however, we usually see our Interns maximise their time in the office learning from their Engineering colleagues.
Eligibility requirements
Penultimate year or Final year of a Bachelor's or Master's degree, at any stage in your PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
Open to recent Students who completed studies in 2025 with up to 12 months experience.
Computing and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Fundamentals
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Desire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist

About You:
You can think on your feet - with knowledge of building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.
You are a team player– you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first environment.
You are naturally curious– always asking why to better understand our customer needs.
You are a passionate problem solver – You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem

Number of positions available

Job Roles Available

AI/ML Developer
Data Scientist
Software Engineer

Type of Roles

Full-time Positions
Internships

Nationalities looking for

Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents

Degree Programmes relevant to the available role(s)

Undergraduate - Artificial Intelligence
Undergraduate - Computer Engineering
Undergraduate - Computer Science
Masters - Artificial Intelligence
Masters - Computer Science
PhD - Computer Science

Company Website

https://www.airwallex.com