We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Circular Economy - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. Staff Data Platform Engineer (Real-time Data Platform) Knowledge Platform Team Hiring Location: San Francisco Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world's most powerful payments and banking infrastructures, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform. Established in 2015 in Melbourne, we aim to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers, and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America. Who We Are? Team Introductions: The Knowledge Platform team is at the heart of our company's data and AI strategy. We are building the foundational infrastructure that empowers the entire company to leverage data, AI, and ML into business impact. We accomplish this by creating platforms that handle the entire data and AI/ML lifecycle, simplifying the interface while providing proper safety and governance. This includes managing our data infrastructure (Databricks, Spark, Kafka, etc.), the technology to serve that data to our users (RAG, MCP, etc.), and the platform to host and govern these AI/ML models. In 2026, our team's overarching mission is to evolve our full data ecosystem-encompassing both platform and models-into a fully AI agent-ready infrastructure; we will empower customers to engage directly with the data platform to extract actionable value through capabilities like analytics and natural language querying, while also upgrading the platform to deliver robust, real-time performance for instant, data-driven decision-making. Who You Are? Role Overview: As a high level architect (staff engineer), you will oversee the strategy, architecture, development, and operation of Airwallex's data and AI platforms. You will play a pivotal role in influencing data-driven and AI-powered decision-making processes. A key aspect of your role will also include building a high-performing team that excels in a fast-paced environment. Your leadership will be critical in mentoring the team, promoting a culture of innovation, and driving technical excellence. Responsibilities: - Spearheaded the identification and resolution of Airwallex-wide challenges using cutting-edge data platform solutions. - Provide visionary technical direction, fostering a community within Airwallex's data realm, and actively leading in solving complex problems hands-on. - Advocate for best practices across the data platform, instilling a culture of craftsmanship and innovation. - Mentor the data platform team, nurturing both technical and professional development. Minimum Requirements: - A minimum of 8 years of experience in Data Platform or an equivalent combination of work and academic exposure in a quantitative field. - Proven experience leading company-wide initiatives across multiple teams or influencing tech roadmap planning. - Effective collaboration with diverse teams and stakeholders to drive tangible business outcomes. - Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with in-depth research, statistical understanding, and scalable design. - Track record of mentoring and investing in the development of scientists, engineers, and peers. - Experience providing technical leadership on significant projects, covering ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure management, and data security. - Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining reliable multi-geographical data pipelines at scale. - Familiarity with workflow or orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, DBT, etc. Preferred Qualifications: - Hands-on design experience in crafting data processing patterns for a modern Lakehouse architecture. - Contribute to the design and development of standard framework modules, high-performance services, and client libraries for big data using tools like GCP, Databricks, BigQuery, DataProc, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, DataFlow, Google Cloud Storage, and Airflow. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide). - Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design. - Experience thriving in a complex environment. At Airwallex, you can make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you'll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team-building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative. Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To 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. 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. 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. #BI-Hybrid

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Mobility - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes to support data migration initiatives. • Participate in data migration projects, ensuring data integrity, quality, and consistency across systems. • Work with AWS-based data environments to build scalable and reliable data solutions. • Develop and optimize Python and SQL scripts for data processing and transformation. • Integrate and manage data from financial platforms such as BlackRock Aladdin and other investment management systems. • Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions. • Ensure high performance, reliability, and security of data workflows. • Use Docker and Git for version control and containerized environments. • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues in Linux and Windows environments. • Document data architecture, pipelines, and migration processes.