Engineering Director, Org & Identity

As Engineering Director, you'll lead the engineering strategy and execution for Airwallex's core identity and organization foundations, spanning user onboarding, authentication, access control, organization modeling, account ownership, and organization-level workflows.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction for highly available, scalable, and secure systems that provide a unified identity and organization foundation for Airwallex's products; Drive the translation of complex identity, security, and organizational requirements into reliable platform capabilities, partnering closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Onboarding; Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design; Raise the bar for engineering excellence across architecture, delivery, operational reliability, and security; Balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability as the team evolves its platform foundations

Requirements

Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, account management, or other foundational platform capabilities; Strong technical depth in designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems; Experience setting technical strategy and translating ambiguous business, product, and security needs into clear engineering priorities; A track record of building and developing high-performing engineering teams, including through hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational design; Experience partnering effectively with product, design, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders; Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, system reliability, security, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability; Clear, direct communication and the ability to influence at both technical and executive levels