Senior Backend Engineer
Kredivo Group is a fun, fast growing company with lofty ambitions. Starting with instant ecommerce financing, we are on a goal to disrupt unsecured lending in Southeast Asia, one of the fastest growing economic regions globally. Our first product, Kredivo, which integrates at merchant checkout, qualifies e-commerce buyers for instant ecommerce purchase financing at rates, which are much lower than consumer finance companies. We do this by using breakthrough technology and science to unlock unprecedented insights about credit risk and fraud from multiple data sources: phone, social networks, telco, financial and location data.
We are one of the fastest growing fintech companies in SEA. The company has raised more than US$35m in VC funding from top investors and has won multiple awards: top 100 fintech globally, #1 fintech startup in SEA, and top 30 global startups by Google.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing new product functionality that scales to millions of users. You will be following industry best practices and use open source frameworks, integrating machine learning models for real-time credit scoring and fraud detection. The shortlisted will be someone who has strong motivation, good communicator, biased for speed, high ownership and has experience in developing/maintaining scalable web applications.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement backend services for various FinAccel lending platforms like Kredivo.
- Work with the Product, Business and Sales teams to gather and understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
- Write high quality, maintainable code.
- Own parts of the system and continuously work to improve them in an agile environment.
- Benchmarking, load testing, diagnosing problems and helping create solutions.
- Research and implement modern frameworks and technologies for back-end systems.
- Participate in design discussions, reviews and propose/implement solutions to technical problems and challenges.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
- Minimum 4 years of software development experience
- Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Computer Science fundamentals
- Experience working on one of follow programming language: Javascript, Python, Golang, Java or C++
- Good understanding of microservices architecture and event driven programming paradigm
- Proficient in HTTP, Web Services, OAuth2 and Restful APIs
- Familiar with Linux environment
- Experience working with cloud based systems and infrastructure services such as AWS, GCP, etc is a plus
- Good Communication skills and good attention to details and ability to work well in a team with a positive attitude