Senior Backend Engineer

About the team:

At Aspire, we believe that technology has the power to revolutionize the way businesses manage finances. Our Engineering Team is at the forefront of this transformative journey, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Aspire's exceptional products and infrastructure. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that simplifies financial services for businesses.

About the role:

We are hiring Senior Backend Engineers who have experience in building backend systems in the cloud. As we enter our next phase, we are focused on building a next-generation architecture that can sustain high growth and endure for years to come. To help us on this journey, we're seeking highly skilled technical professionals with diverse backgrounds who can help us accelerate and enhance our technical capabilities on this journey. You will be building a leading fintech product across South-East Asia on an international & diverse team.

What will you be doing?

• Design, develop and maintain cutting edge web-based fintech products
• Defining the software architecture and building the scalable & fault tolerance system
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in development
• Communicate effectively in English across Engineering, Product, UX teams on daily basis

We would love to get to know you if you have the following:

• Graduated with a Computer Science degree with 4 to 8 years of working experience in software engineering role
• Working experience of start-ups or good tech companies with education from top universities.
• Strong hands-on and proficient in at least one backend programming language such as PHP, Go, Python, Node.js, Java, etc.
• Strong Understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
• Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns
• Code Quality: Focus on code quality and best practices, and ability to ensure code quality in the work.
• Code Review: Ability to review code, identify bugs, and provide feedback to ensure code quality standards are met.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing: Experience in writing and executing unit tests and integration tests as well as debugging skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and experience working in an agile environment.
• Strong communication skills and collaboration skills

Nice to have:

• Experience working in strong tech-oriented companies
• Working experience with full stack development, particular on frontend, mobile
• Exposure of DevOps with AWS
• Good to have work exposure to databases and monitoring tools
• Fintech domain experience