audax means courage. To have the courage to change the banking scene, eliminating constraints caused by existing legacy infrastructure. Our mission is to empower banks and financial institutions to scale and modernise at speed, reaching recent customers without breaking the bank.
We began our journey supplying services to and powering Standard Chartered’s white-label plug and play Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution, Standard Chartered nexus, through our technology capabilities. At audax, we seek go-getters who are hungry for growth and can bring fresh perspectives.
Website - https://audax.io/
Summary
Audax is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of a defined engineering domain within our banking-as-a-service platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving solution design across adjacent domains, ensuring engineering readiness for committed initiatives, and mentoring engineers to raise technical standards.
The role combines deep backend and distributed-systems expertise with practical application of AI-assisted development tooling to improve engineering quality and speed.
What You'll Do
• Lead design and build readiness for a defined engineering area so committed initiatives start with clear designs, dependencies, milestones, and operational considerations.
• Drive solution design across two or more adjacent domains, ensuring designs are actionable and adopted with minimal rework.
• Provide technical leadership on major trade-offs, architectural exceptions, and cross-team dependency decisions within owned domains.
• Improve delivery predictability and engineering quality by managing risks early and reducing quality-gate failures.
• Strengthen integration testing, E2E readiness, observability, and reliability ownership for multi-component changes.
• Mentor engineers and align with Product, QA, DevOps, and Security on technical trade-offs and release readiness.
• Apply AI-assisted development