Senior Frontend Engineer, Procurement Suite (Relocation to Melbourne)

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 1,700 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.

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.

The Procurement team leads the development of innovative features that simplify and optimise the procurement process for our customers. From vendor selection and supplier onboarding to contract management, purchase requisitions, and invoice processing, we build tools that ensure efficiency, transparency, and scalability across all procurement operations.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing user-friendly web interfaces that enhance the usability and functionality of our procurement offerings. This role requires expertise in front-end technologies, a strong focus on user experience, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. Our team is breaking new engineering ground and we have the opportunity to define innovative solutions for a number of challenges, paving the way for other teams to follow in our footsteps.

This role will require a relocation to Melbourne.

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.

Life at Airwallex

We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards

We share our business success through every employee receiving equity

On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams

We provide dental, optical, wellness, and health screening benefits

Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions

Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU

Generous parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leaves

Paid community and volunteer leave

Generous Employee Referral Program rewards for referring top talent

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.