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Airwallex

Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Amsterdam27 days ago

Full-timeIn English
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This job does not state a salary. Engineer jobs in Amsterdam that do state one usually offer between €4,800 and €7,100 gross per month (median €5,700), converted to a full-time job. That is based on 35 jobs on Personeel.com.

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About the job

Airwallex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of its payment acceptance infrastructure. You will design and build scalable backend services and drive initiatives across payment gateways, acquiring, issuing, card networks, and local payment methods.

What you will do

  • Lead architecture and evolution of payment acceptance infrastructure
  • Design and build scalable backend services, REST APIs, event-driven systems, and microservices
  • Drive initiatives across payment gateways, acquiring, issuing, card networks, and local payment methods
  • Partner with product, business, infrastructure, and external engineering teams
  • Conduct architectural reviews and improve system reliability, scalability, and operational effectiveness
  • Raise engineering bar through design practices, code quality, testing, observability, and mentorship

What you bring

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with staff-level technical leadership
  • Experience designing and operating high-volume distributed systems in payments, fintech, commerce, or financial infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring/Spring Boot
  • Expertise in REST APIs, backend microservices, Kafka-based event streams, and distributed data stores like Cassandra, Hazelcast, or Oracle Coherence
  • Experience with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS, plus Docker and Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog, or Prometheus

Nice to have

  • Experience building payment gateways, acquiring platforms, issuing platforms, or payment acceptance infrastructure
  • Experience integrating major card networks like Visa and Mastercard
  • Experience with local payment methods such as iDEAL, Klarna, or Trustly
  • Familiarity with authorization, capture, refunds, chargebacks, settlement, reconciliation, fraud, risk, or PCI/compliance workflows
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives

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