Senior Frontend Engineer, AI - job 1 of 2

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 150,000 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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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 AI Engineering team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers who are obsessed with creating elegant, scalable, and resilient systems that power customer-centric experiences. We operate like a start-up within a scale-up, building innovative technology to tackle a trillion-dollar opportunity. Our engineers bring deep technical expertise and a practical mindset, balancing long-term architecture with rapid, thoughtful execution.

This role will be part of our newly formed AI team, where we are setting out to build Agentic Finance as we prepare for a post-SaaS world and move up the value chain from delivering not just finance infrastructure and tooling, but finance work.

What you’ll do

You’ll build the frontend interfaces that connect users with AI agents performing real financial work. This includes designing responsive, high-performance UIs that surface agent reasoning, status, and outcomes in real time. You’ll collaborate with ML, DS and backend engineers to translate complex systems into clear, intuitive user experiences.

This role is based in San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Delivering complex frontend features with React and TypeScript, including requirements breakdown, time estimation, and active participation in team planning and discussions.

• Build micro Frontend web applications with domain-based design architecture.

• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritise projects and ship incrementally to production.

• Leverage Apollo GraphQL as the backend for frontend (BFF) to build scalable and high-performance node services with simple and contact-based integration with backend.

• Cooperate with the design team to build a design system with common components.

• Actively engage with our Frontend Guild, research cutting edge technologies, and drive initiatives to build high-quality products and clean up technical debt.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence and a delightful user experience

Who you are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or engineering related majors.

• Mastery of modern frontend web technologies.

• Have a strong customer oriented mindset with a track record of product thinking.

• Have a strong aptitude for system thinking, writing high-quality code and documentation.

• Have a demonstrated history of using a wide range of appropriate testing practices.

• Enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of individuals, bridging gaps between different teams and areas of expertise.

Preferred qualifications:

• Expertise in the Typescript and React ecosystem.

• Experience with building micro-frontends and designing modular, scalable frontend architectures using domain-based design to support product growth and complexity.

• An interest in the financial domain.

• Experience with Cypress/Playwright, React-Testing-Library, GraphQL (Apollo client)

• Kotlin, Shell development experience.

• Familiarity with payment processing, cards, issuing, or similar fintech products, with an understanding of the domain’s technical and business needs.

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.

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. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.