About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

What You'll Do:

As an intern, you will be given an exciting and challenging project that you'll work on from day one. You'll join our structured Intern Program, be set up with a buddy, mentor and manager to make sure you have the best experience and that you are encouraged and supported to contribute. Most importantly, we want you to have lots of fun and learn lots whilst you are working with us!

Our leaders welcome all Airwallex people to contribute to our roadmap and to constantly challenge the processes that we build our platforms through. You'll get the opportunity to learn and apply best-practice software engineering, focusing on strong software engineering fundamentals and pragmatism from our engineers.

We have ambitious goals, cutting edge technology and multiple opportunities to come in and start delivering simple and effective engineering led solutions to our customers. Our tech stack (Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes and React) is built to be flexible, architecturally designed to be scalable and event driven at its core.

You will ideally be able to demonstrate the following:

• You can think on your feet - with knowledge of building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.

• You are team player– you enjoy working in a collaborative, innovative and customer first environment.

• You are naturally curious– always asking why to better understand our customer needs.

• You 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

• Currently within 12 months of completing a Bachelor's or Master's degree, at any stage in your PhD (in your penultimate year)

• Computing and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Fundamentals

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Desire to learn and grow with Airwallex as a technologist

At Airwallex we like to ensure we create the best environment for our people providing a collaborative open office space, PlayStation and table tennis to unwind, a fully stocked kitchen which includes breakfast, snacks, fruit, beers, you name it! We also organise regular team building events, encourage flexible/hybrid working and offer learning and development opportunities. Most importantly, we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Our internship program will be a hybrid /3 days in the Melbourne or Sydney office depending on where you are based in Australia.

Requirements: Please provide us with the latest PDF copies of your transcript and CV outlining when you finish your studies when applying

We see many of our successful Interns progress onto our Graduate Program. As a Graduate you'd be entitled to the same benefits as our permanent employees.

Life at Airwallex:

💸We commit to industry-leading salaries and rewards

💲We share our business success through every employee receiving equity

💻 Two epic working spaces in the heart of Melbourne and Sydney

💳 Your own Airwallex Virtual Card, with $1000 per year to spend on physical, lifestyle, health, or charitable donations

🥗On-site snacks, think fully stocked fridges, beers, ice-creams

🧘Access to our mental wellness platform to provide personalised, private support, including coaching and EAP sessions

🎂 Enjoy a paid day off on your birthday to celebrate YOU

👪Generous parental leave, baby bonding leave, and pregnancy loss leaves

💵Paid community and volunteer leave

💸Generous Employee Referral Program rewards for referring top talent

Equal opportunity

Airwallex 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex 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.