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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.\nWe 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.\nWe'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 ouroperating principles to see it in full.\nWhat You'll Do:\nProject scope/overview:\nThe 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..\nDetailed Outline:\nTechnical tasks/deliverables:\nTechnical design scoping: Create workflow diagrams, identify dependencies, expected inputs and outputs, and define success criteria (e.g., latency, accuracy, cost).\n\nFeature development: Build and integrate production-ready Cards and Issuing capabilities across backend, APIs, and frontend where needed.\n\nTesting & observability: Add automated testing and set up observability dashboards with logging, metrics, and alerts to monitor performance and reliability.\n\nDeployment: Deploy the completed capability to production and validate it with real users.\n\nProject Milestones:\nTechnical design sign-off: Finalise workflow diagrams, success criteria, and technical design documentation.\n\nMVP development: Build Cards or Issuing capability and validate key flows.\n\nProduction readiness: Complete testing, observability, and integration requirements.\n\nDeployment and showcase: Release the capability and present the outcome to the wider Engineering team.\n\nExpected learning:\nCard issuing concepts, including card lifecycle, spend controls, and transactions\n\nAPI and distributed systems design\n\nProduction engineering including testing, observability, and reliability\n\nFrontend for customer-facing experiences\n\nBuilding within a global fintech platform\n\nPlanned role & responsibilities\nActively participate in team standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to align with engineering priorities.\n\nCollaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g., Operations, Finance, Infosec) to understand workflow requirements and validate outputs.\n\nContribute to code reviews, testing, and documentation.\n\nDeliver bi-weekly project updates and participate in mid-point and final showcases to demo project.\n\nDesign, develop, and deploy an assigned Cards or Issuing project under mentor guidance.\n\nOutline of onboarding process steps in team:\nBuddy assignment: Pair with a senior engineer/mentor for end-to-end feature lifecycle walkthrough, and weekly technical check-ins.\n\nTools orientation: Setup access to relevant AI and development tools\n\nDomain familiarization: Walkthrough of identified finance operational workflows (e.g., cash reconciliation, PO approvals) with relevant domain experts\n\nProposed schedule of Review Check-ins:\nMonthly check-in for progress review and feedback sharing\n\nFinal Review: at 24 weeks (End-of-project showcase)\n\nEligibility requirements\nAble to commit to a 6 month placement period, ideally commence in Jan ‘27 through to June 2027.\n\nAble to commit to Full Time hours for the duration of the placement.\n\nAre a current student in Singapore, studying towards a formal tertiary qualification at a recognised university.\n\nStrong verbal and written communication skills.\n\nDesire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist.\n\nWe’re looking for people who meet the minimum skills and experience for this role. The preferred skills are great to have, but are not mandatory.\nMinimum skills & experience:\nProficiency in Python, with strong software engineering fundamentals.\n\nAbility to design and implement AI-driven systems that automate workflows and improve customer experiences.\n\nStrong skills in system design and critical thinking, building elegant abstractions over complex patterns, especially in financial services.\n\nProven track record of writing clean, high-quality, production-grade code and ensuring robust interactions between services.\n\nExperience working with production AI systems, adhering to best practices in engineering, security, and AI governance.\n\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner across technical and non-technical teams.\n\nPreferred skills & experience:\nProficiency in Kotlin, Typescript or Javascript.\n\nFamiliarity with MLOps practices and deployment pipelines for AI-driven products (e.g., model serving, monitoring, retraining).\n\nExperience with vector databases, orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Ray, etc.), or event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).\n\nExposure to cloud AI/ML services (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including GPU orchestration and scalable model deployment.\n\nApplication and Assessment process\nApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis with application status changes and outcomes communicated as soon as decisions are finalised. Your patience during this process is highly appreciated.\nOnline technical assessment\n\nTalent screen\n\nTechnical Interview\n\nHiring Manager interview\n\nRequirements: Please provide us with the PDF copies of your transcripts and CV outlining when you finish your studies when applying\nAbout You:\nYou can think on your feet - with knowledge of building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.\n\nYou are a team player - you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first environment.\n\nYou are naturally curious - always asking why to better understand our customer needs.\n\nYou are a passionate problem solver - You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem\n\nApplicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters\nTo 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.\nAirwallex 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.\nEqual opportunity\nAirwallex 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. 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