Job Description

Imagine a world where technology empowers people to achieve their financial goals and dreams.That\'s the world we are creating at GXS Bank, a joint venture between Grab and Singtel, two of Asia\'s leading digital innovators. We are building a new kind of digital bank that leverages data, technology and trust to deliver personalized and convenient financial services to millions of customers in Southeast Asia. We are looking for passionate and talented individuals who share our vision and want to make a positive impact on society. Join us and be part of the team that will redefine banking for the future.About the Team:The backend engineering team develops the digital backbone of the bank that drive all user experiences. They create robust, scalable, and secure backend systems. They are responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring all backend services in production. The team develops and maintains a strategic technology roadmap and ensures the application team implements best practices to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and availability of our systems. The team works very closely with the all the application development teams to ensure that all solutions are aligned with the business and technical requirements, and to enhance the overall quality and performance of the systemsGet to know the Role:

• We are seeking talented & passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our team.

You will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. It is very important that our team member take initiatives to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them. The day-to-day activities/Responsibilities:

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank\'s range of services
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
• Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The must haves:

• A Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields with strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 3-7 years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang

Our Tech Stack:Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS and Android, written in Swift and RxJava. Our Command Center front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript.We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include Travis CI, New Relic, PullReview, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog and Jenkins.

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