Engineering Lead, Regulatory Reporting

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 200,000 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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. ATTRIBUTES WE VALUE We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/us/operating-principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. ABOUT THE TEAM The Regulatory Reporting team builds and operates Airwallex's automated compliance reporting pipeline across 10+ jurisdictions globally. We own the full stack: data modelling, submission tooling, AI-assisted review, and the internal platforms that compliance teams rely on to meet their regulatory obligations. We are a small, high-leverage team. Every engineer has direct impact on Airwallex's global licence health. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Engineering Lead you own both the technical direction and the day-to-day execution of the regulatory reporting engineering function. You lead a team of backend and frontend engineers, define the architecture, and act as the primary technical partner to Compliance, Legal, and Finance stakeholders. RESPONSIBILITIES - Define and drive the technical roadmap for regulatory reporting automation across all licensed entities and jurisdictions. - Lead architecture decisions across data pipelines, submission tooling, and AI-assisted compliance workflows. - Manage and grow a team of 4–8 engineers; provide technical mentorship, conduct code and design reviews, and set engineering standards. - Own delivery of regulatory reporting milestones — ensuring reports are accurate, on time, and auditable. - Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Compliance, Legal, and Finance; translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications. - Drive adoption of AI/LLM tooling to automate repetitive review, gap analysis, and interpretation tasks. - Define and uphold data quality, testing, and reconciliation standards across all reporting models. - Partner with the broader Core Banking engineering organisation on shared data platform capabilities. WHO YOU ARE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead or staff engineer role. - Strong backend engineering foundation — Python, Kotlin, or Java; comfortable with SQL at scale. - Proven track record leading delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder technical programmes. - Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous regulatory or compliance requirements into clear engineering designs. - Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable representing engineering to non-technic