Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a strong value due to the significant technical challenges, an innovative work environment, and competitive salary potential within the fintech sector.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge ML technology
- Part of a rapidly growing fintech company
- Requires significant ML and engineering experience
Pros
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge ML technology in risk management
- Role in a rapidly growing company valued at $5.6 billion
- Engagement with diverse teams across global locations
Cons
- High expectations for experience, requiring at least 5 years in relevant fields
- Fast-paced environment with potentially long hours
- Complexity of collaboration across multiple regions
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Hybrid / office with some remote
Good fit
- Senior data engineers and ML engineers
- Professionals looking to improve risk management systems
- Candidates with a strong technical acumen in big data
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant experience
- Those uncomfortable in a high-pressure environment
- Candidates who prefer routine tasks over dynamic projects
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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 more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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 Risk Platform Team at Airwallex is responsible for managing the risk for all the products at Airwallex, including GTPN, PA, Issuing, Onboarding, and Account takeover. The risk landscape is constantly changing, and fraudsters are becoming increasingly sophisticated. We are at the forefront of innovation in risk management. Our team builds and maintains the robust, scalable infrastructure that powers our advanced machine learning models, enabling rapid iteration and deployment of risk strategies.
What you’ll do
Our mission is to keep Airwallex's products and services safe and secure, and make Airwallex a trusted partner for businesses around the world. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and optimizing the end-to-end machine learning platform that enables rapid development, deployment, and monitoring of ML models. We leverage cutting-edge technologies, including big data frameworks, real-time streaming, MLOps best practices, graph technologies, and Large Language Models (LLMs), to implement and improve our strategy.
Our team expands across Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. We collaborate with other teams (Data Science, Product, Engineering) and our customers globally to ensure a holistic approach for risk management and deliver state-of-the-art ML capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large datasets (batch and stream) for ML model training and inference.
Develop and manage feature generation systems and feature stores, ensuring data quality, consistency, reusability, and accessibility for model development.
Architect and implement robust model serving infrastructure for deploying, managing, and monitoring machine learning models in production at scale, ensuring low latency and high availability.
Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Senior Technical Staff to understand ML requirements and translate them into robust platform capabilities and infrastructure.
Champion and implement MLOps best practices, including CI/CD for ML, model versioning, experiment tracking, automated monitoring, and feedback loops.
Experiment with new technologies and frameworks in the big data, streaming, and MLOps space, proposing architectural improvements for the ML platform.
Support and mentor less-experienced team members in ML platform engineering, big data technologies, data pipeline development, and MLOps practices.
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Ensure the security, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the ML platform components.
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:
More than 5 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years focused on building and maintaining machine learning platforms, big data systems, or large-scale data infrastructure.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Proven experience with big data technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop, Presto, Hive, Flink) and distributed computing.
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used in data engineering and ML (e.g., Python, Scala, Java).
Experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex ETL/ELT data pipelines and workflow management tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, Dagster).
Hands-on experience with real-time data streaming technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming) and building stream processing applications.
Experience with designing and implementing solutions for feature generation, feature engineering at scale, and/or feature stores.
Familiarity with model serving patterns, tools, and infrastructure (e.g., KFServing, Seldon Core, BentoML, Triton Inference Server, or custom API development for model deployment).
Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
Proficient with build tools (e.g., Gradle, Maven, SBT) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
Preferred qualifications:
In-depth knowledge of MLOps principles and hands-on experience implementing MLOps pipelines and tools for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous training (CI/CD/CT).
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud, AWS, Azure) and their ML/data services (e.g., Vertex AI, SageMaker, Databricks, EMR).
Familiarity with various database technologies (e.g., NoSQL, SQL, Graph Databases) and their application in ML systems.
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
Understanding of machine learning algorithms, model lifecycle management, and evaluation metrics.
Experience building platforms for risk management, fraud detection, or anomaly detection, particularly within financial and fintech industries.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, 1 with experience working in agile environments.
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.
