Golang Developer Relocation Jobs in San Ramon, CA

Job Summary:
Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, seeking an Engineering Lead/Manager to oversee the strategy and delivery of fraud management products. The role involves leading a high-performing engineering team, ensuring system quality, and collaborating with various teams to enhance risk management practices.
Responsibilities:
• Provide strategic leadership for a mission-critical fraud and risk platform, aligning technical direction and capacity planning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Work with PM, Design, Ops, Commercial and Strategy teams to shape the future of our fraud management products
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization (including managers and senior ICs): set goals, establish career paths, run performance and compensation processes, and cultivate a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.
• Partner closely with PM to define the roadmap, prioritize a measurable backlog, and deliver outcomes that improve detection rates, reduce false positives, and minimize chargebacks.
• Serve as the accountable owner for architecture and system quality across services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency for real-time decisioning under high load.
• Remain hands-on where it matters: guide designs, review critical code and APIs, and de-risk complex initiatives with pragmatic technical deep dives.
• Drive design and code quality: institute standards, reviews, and automated checks that raise the bar without slowing teams down.
• Ensure cross-team collaboration with platform, data, SRE, security, and global engineering teams; remove blockers and foster clear interfaces, SLAs, and ownership.
• Own operational excellence: on-call readiness, incident response, postmortems, observability, capacity planning, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Lead talent strategy: recruit, onboard, and develop engineers and managers; build diverse teams and succession plans for sustained velocity.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years in back-end engineering with 2+ years in engineering management, including ownership of complex, distributed systems in production.
• Risk management or Fintech product engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, high-concurrency patterns, I/O/NIO, and network programming.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and high-availability, high-throughput architectures (caching, partitioning, consistency models, and resiliency patterns).
• Proficiency with Spring / Spring Boot, HTTP, TCP/IP, REST, and build tools such as Gradle / Maven.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
Preferred:
• Leadership across multiple disciplines (e.g., frontend, backend, data/ML, SRE) with managers-of-managers scope for Director-level candidates.
• Working knowledge of machine learning in production and strong data analysis skills to interpret model and rule performance.
• Fluency in English for effective collaboration across global teams and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with modern data and storage technologies: Cassandra, Redis, NoSQL, Hadoop, and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark).
• Polyglot engineering with one or more of Kotlin, Scala, Python, Golang.
• Cloud experience with Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or GCP; strong grasp of cloud networking, security, and cost management.
• Background with risk-specific components: rule engines, feature stores, model serving, A/B testing/experimentation, and real-time stream processing.
• Awareness of regulatory and security standards relevant to payments (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC 2, data privacy best practices).
Company:
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, payment solutions, and spend management tools. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Singapore, SGP, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.