--- title: 'Senior IT Engineer, LRC at Airwallex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-it-engineer-lrc-airwallex-united-states-san-francisco-ca-dfhh2mktypm7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-23' --- # Senior IT Engineer, LRC at Airwallex - **Company:** [Airwallex](https://feeny.ai/companies/airwallex) - **Location:** United States / San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/60654f81-6b3c-42f1-be22-9a915abdf84d/application **Skills:** Python, Terraform, Workato, Okta Workflows, Zapier, SAML, OAuth, SSO, AWS, GCP, RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs, MDM, Kandji, JAMF, Intune, JIRA, Confluence > Serve as the primary IT engineer for Legal, Risk, and Compliance teams, building workflows, automations, and AI-driven solutions to improve operational efficiency. The role involves managing service desks, integrating third-party tools, and acting as a technical advisor to ensure scalable and secure IT operations. ## Job description ## 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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 Corporate IT drives our IT support, IT engineering and business engineering functions at Airwallex. IT Engineering is the core team that drives our technology experiences for Airwallex. From collaboration, automation and video conferencing to managing our computers, applications, identity and access management. We design, build and run the systems and services our Airwallex teams use to build our product, serve our customers and run our business. We partner with every team in the business, from Finance to Engineering, People and Support, we help solve problems and help drive Airwallex forward. ## What you’ll do As an IT Engineer, you’ll focus on solving problems and fixing issues our business and IT operations teams encounter throughout the day. You’ll work on systems and escalations, helping to fix issues and building and implementing solutions to our many challenges. This role will have a strong focus on workflows, automation and orchestration with our Legal, Risk and Compliance organization as well as serve as a member of our IT engineering team. Partnering with our Legal team, you’ll help them work faster, leverage AI, build workflows and serve as the engineer to the team. This role is highly collaborative, and has a global impact from day one. Our LRC teams sit in many countries and regions, and you’ll have a significant opportunity to build a new function within the IT engineering team. This role is based in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco or Singapore. ## Responsibilities - Serve as the primary IT engineer for our LRC teams, learning and understanding their workflows, ways of working, and how they serve Airwallex, building a model to improve and scale their function - Build workflows and orchestrations – these touch many systems and will impact many teams - Use low-code/no-code tools to build automations/orchestrations (Workato, Okta Workflows, Zapier, etc.) - Leverage, design, implement AI with a focus on the LRC function and the unique ways of working within an in-house legal function - Work with APIs across major vendors (Okta, Google, GCP, Aliyun, etc.) - Build and enhance our AI portfolio, with an initial focus on legal-specific tools and implementation ([Harvey.ai](http://Harvey.ai), etc.) - Become a trusted advisor to our LRC team and the IT engineering team, acting as an expert and consultant - Build, enhance and grow legal applications and serve as the technical owner or primary IT engineer for the space (Ironclad, Auditboard, Google Workspace, internal tools, etc.) - Manage and build service desks and orchestrations (Atlassian products, i.e. JIRA, Confluence, etc.) - Own the full lifecycle of features and products within this space, from proof-of-concept to implementation to operations and maintenance – leading projects from start to finish - Handle escalations from other IT teams where relevant - Work closely with INFOSEC, People Ops, Engineering and IT teams to build systems that scale as we grow globally - Integrate our tools with new and existing platforms (cloud, GCP, etc.) and across our SaaS portfolio (SFDC, Slack, Google, etc.) - Build and maintain custom tools or services if needed - Respond to incidents as part of an on-call roster or in emergencies - Write documentation and maintain diagrams of your solutions and applications, ensuring readability and understanding - Work with IT Operations and IT Engineering to help fill gaps and collaborate on other projects and services - Constantly learn, test, evaluate and enhance our products and offerings – never letting anything get stale ## Who you are - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role. - Highly trustworthy and empathetic – this works with privileged information and with some of our most important information, trust is critical - Autonomous and able to work with minimal direction while maintaining velocity and delivering projects on time – sometimes with aggressive deadlines and failure-is-not-an-option risk - Strong ability to write strong technical documents - Expert level understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth, SSO, etc. - Expert knowledge of workflows and common orchestration tools (workato, etc.) - Experience with a programming language, such as python, and infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform) - Experience with APIs, able to work with common vendors and integrate into our tech stack - Experience using and understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.) - Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access management principles in security and corporate IT environments - Experience working in all SaaS-based systems and applications - Strong understanding of MDM systems (macOS, windows; kandji, JAMF, intune, etc.) - Ability to move fast and urgently, making correct decisions and assumptions – sometimes without all the information Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @[airwallex.com](http://airwallex.com) email address. Please apply only through [careers.airwallex.com](http://careers.airwallex.com) or our official LinkedIn page. 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. ## 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. ## About Airwallex ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Airwallex is a financial technology company building a unified global payments and banking platform that helps businesses manage cross-border payments, treasury, spend, and financial operations through proprietary infrastructure, software, and AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series G) - **Headquarters**: Dual headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco, USA; founded in Melbourne, Australia - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Jack Zhang (CEO), Lucy Liu, Max Li, Xijing Dai, and Ron Li ## Core Business - Primary industry: Financial Services / Payments / Fintech Infrastructure - Target customers: B2B, primarily serving SMBs, scaling enterprises, digital platforms, and marketplaces globally - Mission or purpose statement: "Build the future of global banking" — they aim to replace legacy, fragmented banking systems with a borderless, intelligent, real-time financial operating system for modern businesses. ## Products & Services - **[Business Accounts]**: Multi-currency global accounts to receive, hold, and manage funds in 20+ currencies, with local account details for key markets. - **[Payments]**: Global payment acceptance via 160+ local payment methods, low-code checkout, and programmatic payout capabilities to 200+ countries. - **[Spend / Corporate Cards]**: Multi-currency corporate and employee cards with customisable spend controls, designed for global teams. - **[Expense Management]**: A platform to track, control, and reconcile global business expenses, including employee reimbursements. - **[Billing & Subscription Management]**: A billing platform for usage-based and subscription pricing models, supporting AI companies and complex revenue workflows. - **[Platform APIs]**: API-first infrastructure enabling businesses to embed financial services (accounts, payments, FX, card issuing) into their own products. - **[FX & Treasury]**: Interbank foreign exchange rates and tools to intelligently manage currency risk across markets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: US$11 billion (latest valuation in 2025, following a fresh investment round). - **Key Metric**: US$1.8 billion in total funding raised; Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) surpassed US$1 billion by 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series G investors include prominent global venture capital firms (specific names not listed in source but backed by top-tier VCs); serves over 200,000 businesses including TikTok, Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. - **Growth Signals**: - US$287 billion in global payments processed (USD). - 92% of transfers settled same-day, 50% processed instantly. - Over 85 financial licenses and registrations globally. - Team of ~2,300 people across 27 offices internationally. - Dual-headquarters model (Singapore + San Francisco) adopted in 2025 to support next phase of growth. ## Competitive Advantages - Proprietary, API-first infrastructure built from scratch (not riding legacy banking rails), enabling faster, cheaper, and more transparent cross-border transactions. - Unified platform combining banking, payments, spend management, billing, and FX — reducing the need for multiple vendors. - Deep AI integration across the platform to automate financial operations and provide intelligent insights. - Extensive regulatory licensing (85+ licenses) across major markets, creating a high barrier to entry. - Strong network effects: serves both direct businesses and platforms/marketplaces that embed Airwallex into their offerings. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the platform to support the rapid growth of AI-native companies and usage-based business models (highlighted by the launch of their global billing platform). - Expand the dual-headquarters presence to tap into the largest tech talent markets (San Francisco and Singapore). - Invest heavily in AI to build "interconnected, intelligent financial systems where money, data, and decisions move together." - Deepen product capabilities to automate financial operations end-to-end for global businesses. ## Why Work Here - High-growth, ambitious environment: described as "the most ambitious work of your career" by the company; founded in 2015 and already processing $287B in payments. - Global impact and scale: work on infrastructure used by 200,000+ businesses, from startups to enterprises like TikTok and SHEIN. - Hybrid/office culture: 27 offices globally (Melbourne, Singapore, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Amsterdam, and more) offering opportunities to work across teams and locations. - Engineering-driven culture: heavy emphasis on building proprietary technology, AI, and developer-first products. - Notable perks: opportunity to work on a modern financial stack, exposure to cutting-edge AI/Fintech intersection, and a diverse, international team of "2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech." ## Sources 1. [airwallex.com - Who We Are](https://www.airwallex.com/en-eu/who-we-are) 2. [airwallex.com - Global Platform](https://www.airwallex.com/global) 3. [careers.airwallex.com](https://careers.airwallex.com/) 4. [LinkedIn - Airwallex](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airwallex) 5. 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