Engineering Lead, Notification Platform

About the team

The Notification Platform engineering team at Airwallex builds and operates the core infrastructure that powers customer and internal communications across the company. The team owns the platform responsible for delivering notifications reliably, at scale, and across multiple channels, enabling product teams to engage users with the right message at the right time.

As a centralized platform team, Notification Platform bridges the gap between business needs and architectural excellence. The team builds and evolves a cloud-native platform using modern technologies and design patterns, including reactive programming, workflow orchestration, distributed systems, and advanced gateway integrations. The platform supports complex, organization-wide communication use cases and provides the foundations that product teams rely on to deliver critical messaging experiences.

The team operates a highly I/O-intensive and mission-critical system that serves the entire organization. This requires strong engineering craftsmanship, operational discipline, and a continuous innovation mindset. In addition to building and running core platform capabilities, the team also leads comprehensive evaluations of strategic solutions that shape notification architecture and platform direction across Airwallex.

What you'll do

As an Engineering Lead, Notification Platform, you will lead the team responsible for building and operating critical components of Airwallex's notification infrastructure. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership.

You will have direct reports and be accountable for team health, execution, and long-term technical quality. While you remain technically credible and hands-on at an architectural level, your primary focus is enabling the team to do their best work and driving strong engineering outcomes at scale.

As a vital member of the Airwallex - Notification Platform Team, you will be part of a specialized force that meticulously bridges the gap between business exigencies and architectural finesse. You will engage in:

• A cloud native Platform with cutting-edge technologies such as reactive programming, temporal, workflow, distributed systems, and advanced gateway solutions

• An I/O intensive and mission critical system serving the entire organization requiring high craftsmanship, discipline and continuous innovative mindset

• Comprehensive, organization-wide evaluations of strategic solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers through regular feedback, performance management, and career development.

• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Design, develop & maintain a resilient, high-throughput, low-latency Notification Platform to deliver messages (SMS, Email, Push) to our customers worldwide.

• Maintain a high architecture standard & craftsmanship through an Event Driven Architecture requiring high scalability, traceability & automation

• Identify new opportunities to engage adopters through delightful adoption experience and extension over various channels, such as WhatsApp and inbox notifications.

• Engage with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across Airwallex's global offices, fostering effective communication through fast pace business transformation & providing data insights.

• Troubleshoot production issues across different levels of the stack.

• You'll work hand-in-hand with the Issuing Platform team (powering Airwallex Cards & Transactions) as one of the primary consumers of your Platform.

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 with sophisticated level knowledge in designing and delivering of Enterprise Grade software systems.

• Experienced in Software Engineering with strong capabilities in modern programming languages like Java, Python or Go.

• 8+ years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on large-scale, low-latency, high-throughput systems, with at least 1+ years in a people leadership role managing engineers directly.

• At least 3 years of experience building distributed systems using middleware (like Kafka, PostgreSQL) and have hands on experience on managing, maintaining and tuning event pipeline

• Familiar with at least one: Java memory management, multi-threading, high concurrency, IO / NIO, network communication, etc.

Preferred qualifications:

• Wider interest beyond backend technologies, including design systems, search & AI technologies, gateway technologies and data analytics.

• Focus on automating tasks to concentrate on high-impact activities and are proactive in reducing technical debt.

• Experience with distributed databases or storage systems like PostgreSQL /Redis /NoSQL.

• Proficient in messaging patterns and resilience.

• Hands-on knowledge with full implementation of Kafka.