About the role
ABOUT AIRWALLEX
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 2,700 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.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Project scope/overview
The intern will design, develop, and deploy production-ready capabilities for Airwallex’s Spend Cards and Issuing platform. The project may span card lifecycle management, spend controls, transaction visibility, APIs, or customer-facing card experiences..
Detailed Outline
Technical tasks/deliverables
- Technical design scoping: Create workflow diagrams, identify dependencies, expected inputs and outputs, and define success criteria (e.g., latency, accuracy, cost).
- Feature development: Build and integrate production-ready Cards and Issuing capabilities across backend, APIs, and frontend where needed.
- Testing & observability: Add automated testing and set up observability dashboards with logging, metrics, and alerts to monitor performance and reliability.
- Deployment: Deploy the completed capability to production and validate it with real users.
Project Milestones
- Technical design sign-off: Finalise workflow diagrams, success criteria, and technical design documentation.
- MVP development: Build Cards or Issuing capability and validate key flows.
- Production readiness: Complete testing, observability, and integration requirements.
- Deployment and showcase: Release the capability and present the outcome to the wider Engineering team.