Pros
Airwallex is a genuinely fast-moving, high-impact place to work: you get to own big problems end-to-end, work directly with senior stakeholders and customers, and see your decisions translate into real product and revenue outcomes quickly. If you enjoy building from scratch, you’ll have plenty of room to define processes, shape best practices, and influence how teams operate rather than just following a playbook. The bar for talent is high, the problems are interesting (especially in payments/issuing), and strong performers are given a lot of trust and autonomy.
Cons
The flip side of the pace is that you won’t find the mature processes and predictability you might expect in a larger, more established company. Priorities can shift quickly, teams are sometimes restructured, and there can be churn in certain functions, which leads to reset conversations, misalignment, and duplicated work. Cross-team communication isn’t always consistent, so you need to be proactive about chasing context and aligning stakeholders, and that can be draining if you prefer clear, stable structures.