2025/26 Software Engineer Intern Program

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!

We have multiple products spanning b2b wallets, payment acceptance, credit card issuing, treasury management, FX, developer experience, and this list continues to expand. At Airwallex, we are growing rapidly and our engineers are encouraged to be nimble and have an appetite to want to work across multiple product verticals.

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.

• You are majoring in Computer Science (or Electrical Engineering Computer Science).

• By the summer 2025, you will be within 12 months of completing a Bachelor's or Master's degree or 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 includes our office policy: hybrid with 2 days in the San Francisco office. The estimated pay rate for this role is: $54 - $57 hourly.

Requirements:

Please provide us with the latest PDF copies of your transcript and resume 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.

💻 Epic working space in the heart of San Francisco.

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

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