Engineering Manager, Growth

Our Growth Team sits at the heart of Airwallex's mission, focusing on user acquisition and strategic market expansion. We leverage data and cutting-edge technologies to craft seamless, intuitive experiences that help millions of users discover, engage with, and benefit from our products.

From new-user funnels to onboarding optimizations, our Growth team is all about experimentation, rapid iteration, and driving sustainable business impact. Whether it's designing scalable architectures for high-traffic pages, building robust A/B testing frameworks, or integrating global marketing platforms, the Growth team's contributions directly shape how we attract and retain customers worldwide.

Joining the Growth team means you'll have a front-row seat to the most crucial stage of our product lifecycle and play a pivotal role in fueling the next wave of our global expansion.

Lead the talent strategy for your organization by recruiting, onboarding, and developing top-tier engineers and managers, building a diverse team with robust succession plans for sustained velocity. Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization by setting goals, establishing career paths, running performance and compensation processes, and cultivating a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.

Coach and grow your team through regular feedback, performance management, and career development plans, while supporting hiring and onboarding to scale sustainably. Drive cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal, Risk, Operations, Support, and other engineering teams, effectively communicating progress, insights, and business impact to executive leadership and key partners across the company.

Foster strong collaboration between your team and local/global engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, while providing strategic leadership for a mission-critical platform - aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams (small to mid-sized).

- Proven ability to recruit, onboard, and develop top-tier engineers, including building succession plans and career ladders.

- Experience running performance and compensation processes and fostering an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture.

- Ability to navigate ambiguity, make technical tradeoffs, and align engineering efforts with business objectives and success metrics.

- Excellent skills in translating technical concepts for stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Executive leadership.

- Track record of building API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

- Experience partnering with Growth/Marketing teams to solve end-to-end GTM operations and drive product adoption.

- Experience identifying opportunities to leverage AI for user acquisition, churn prediction, or personalized customer journeys.

- Track record of building new products or teams from scratch and scaling them as adoption grows.

- Knowledge of data warehousing, customer segmentation, and analytics tools to drive decision-making.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).

- Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.