About the role

The Founders' Lab is Airwallex's elite internal innovation hub, operating like an agile startup, partnering directly with the CEO to architect, build, and ship next-generation Fintech AI innovations and 0-to-1 product lines. Minimum qualification: 10+ years of software engineering experience with a background operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced, greenfield environments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including operating at Staff level or leading technical direction in fast-paced, greenfield environments
• Strong product sense - commercial lens on engineering decisions
• Comfort with ambiguity, independently mapping technical specs from high-level direction
• Deep backend and full-stack capabilities
• Clear communication with infra teams and executive stakeholders
• Preferred: experience with Generative AI/LLMs/agent workflows, fintech/payments/regulated financial systems, or prior founding engineer/tech lead/co-founder experience

What you'll do

• Partner with CEO and global leadership to translate strategic visions into market-ready software
• Lead technical evaluation and implementation of emerging AI technologies
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
• Own the full stack from data models to UI while steering backend architecture
• Help lay technical foundation for incubation projects to grow into standalone product lines