Senior IT Engineer, LRC

US - San Francisco · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 10, 2026

At a glance

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.
We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

As an IT Engineer, you'll focus on solving problems and fixing issues our business and IT operations teams encounter throughout the day.
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.

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, 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

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.)

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