Technical Support Lead (Asia Pacific incl. China coverage)

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Airwallex’s customers (particularly the APAC and China regions) on troubleshooting their technical issues (e.g. providing technical information / explanations, sample codes, exploring payment logs, FAQs)

• Work directly with developers and internal teams on post integration issues to provide support and best practices for using Airwallex’s product

• Identify areas where Airwallex’s products and services are not functioning as expected and work with internal stakeholders to deliver improvements

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to identify causes of system failures and deliver solutions

• Be available to coordinate the process to manage resolution of system failure incidents

• Participating in the development of tools, systems, and processes to improve productivity and product reliability
  

Who You Are

We're looking for people who meet or exceed the following requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in people management, with success in directly managing Technical Support Engineers in APAC and China region

• 5+ years experience in customer-facing technical support.

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science or relevant majors.

• Experience with REST, JSON, HTTP, HTTPS and SQL. Must be familiar with common HTTP errors and resolutions.

• Proven experience and skills in troubleshooting and problem-solving technical issues.

• Must have sufficient technical knowledge to communicate with software development teams.

• Have familiarity with process to escalate system incidents and coordinate resolution.

• Strong willingness to deliver exceptional customer service at scale.

• Excellent written, verbal and in-person communication skills in both English and Mandarin
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Good to have technical knowledge: Python, Go.

• Good to have monitoring tools knowledge: ELK, Splunk, Loki.

• Experienced in e-commerce, payment, fin-tech industry is a plus.

• Good command of English and Mandarin

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.