Airwallex · 2 days ago
Engineering Manager - AI Tools (Security)
US - San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
8+ years expAirwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 200,000 businesses worldwide. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to develop AI-powered security tooling and ensure the safety of significant payment volumes and numerous companies.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechPayments
Responsibilities
Manage and lead a team of engineers, providing technical direction, setting clear goals, and ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of AI-powered security tooling
Own team execution and delivery, including planning, prioritization, resourcing, and performance management while balancing hands-on technical leadership
Lead the development of AI tools and applications, from inception to implementation
Support incident response efforts by building ad-hoc tools for threat hunting, remediation and scanners
Build, monitor, and maintain underlying infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, and ETL pipelines
Sit with engineers to identify opportunities for automation and tooling development
Partner with product engineering teams to drive security outcomes - such as automation for patching, and development of gateways and other services to decrease risk
Mentor and help grow other Software Engineers in the team
Qualification
Required
Prior experience leading or managing software engineering teams, including mentorship, career development, and performance feedback
Proven ability to translate business and security goals into execution plans, aligning roadmap, timelines, and engineering capacity
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
Experience with production code bases
Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python) and one systems programming language (eg. Golang, C/C++)
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including data pipelines, serverless workloads, and Kubernetes
Proven experience working autonomously on projects - delivering them to a high quality and on time
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to dive deep to find the best solution to a problem
Obsessive curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, gather context, and learn
Preferred
Experience working in a high-growth tech company
Hands on experience with AI - specifically leveraging AI to build applications
Experience maintaining Linux operating systems
Company
Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, payment solutions, and spend management tools.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.53BKey Investors
AdditionSquare Peg CapitalLone Pine Capital
2025-12-08Series G· $330M
2025-05-21Series F· $150M
2025-05-21Secondary Market· $150M
Leadership Team
Jack Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Jacob Dai
Co-Founder & CTO
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