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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. 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 Talent Acquisition team at Airwallex plays a pivotal role in shaping the company’s future by sourcing and recruiting the brightest and most ambitious minds to drive our company forward. We collaborate with hiring managers and leadership teams to understand business needs and proactively find the right individuals who will contribute to our success. As trusted advisors, our team is passionate about building strong relationships with candidates and delivering a seamless recruiting experience that reflects Airwallex’s operating principles, dynamic culture and global ambitions.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is growing rapidly, and we’re looking for a seasoned Technical Talent Acquisition Partner to help us scale our engineering teams in Europe. You’ll own the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and stakeholder alignment to offers, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your work directly shapes the future of our business.

Partner with executives: Work closely with senior leaders to define hiring needs, align on priorities, and shape engineering talent strategies.

Attract top talent: Design and execute innovative sourcing strategies to engage exceptional technical talent, including niche and senior-level roles.

Own end-to-end recruiting: Lead the full hiring process, from outreach to offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate and stakeholder experience.

Drive decisions with data: Use recruiting metrics and market insights to influence decisions, improve efficiency, and uphold a high hiring bar.

Champion excellence: Ensure interviewer calibration, promote best practices, and strengthen Airwallex’s employer brand to attract diverse, high-quality talent.

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:

Experience: 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a minimum of 2 years working in an in-house (corporate) talent acquisition environment.

Technical Domain Expertise: Proven track record of successfully hiring for technical roles, specifically across multiple software engineering disciplines and stack levels.

Leadership Recruiting: Demonstrated experience sourcing, assessing, and closing senior-level technical talent up to the Director level.

Stakeholder Management: Experience partnering directly with, advising, and influencing senior engineering leaders or executives on hiring strategies.

Environment: Proven ability to manage a high volume of technical roles and deliver results in a fast-paced, scaling, or high-growth environment.

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 email address. Please apply only through 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.