To be successful in the role of Senior Backend Engineer, the incumbent will be able to design and build high quality code, take ownership of projects, design and write tests, manage CI/CD pipelines and production releases, address technical and design requirements and provide mentorship and coaching to other team members. They will also maintain behaviours that emphasise collaboration, problem solving and continuous improvement in line with our values and successfully provide mentorship and coaching to other team members.
Coding, Quality and Architecture
● Deliver high quality, maintainable code
● Maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively
● Ensure testing meets any compliance requirements e.g. PI and GDPR
● Review and promote new testing tools and techniques
● Manage pull request approvals
● Apply a risk based approach to assessing all security aspects of a system/application
● Follow DevOps best practices and keep up with modern tooling
● Able to set architecture direction to integrate new architectural components
● On-call support
Continuous improvement & best practice
● Follows industry best practices with particular attention to maintainability, reusability, extensibility and clean code
● Ensure team adoption of coding, quality, accessibility and secure code standards
● Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
● Maintain a test and learn mindset with curiosity, collaboration and care
Collaboration & mentorship
● Ability to collaborate across different teams, and across all levels of seniority
● Provide coaching and mentoring to other team members
● Lead all interactions with trust empathy and clear communication
● Lead the team in the absence of the Technical Lead
● Actively participate in team collaboration sessions e.g. tech forums, brown bags, strategy meetings
● Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
● Ability to design, estimate and build high quality and maintainable code
● Ability to maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively
● Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills
● Extensive experience crafting and building software using the latest delivery techniques
● An understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution design
● Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
● Experience working with technical and non-technical partners, with the capability to influence
● Able to collaborate across different teams and across all levels of seniority
● Strong experience with Java, springboot and RabbitMQ.
● Banking/finance experience is favourable but not essential.
● Open to relocating to Danang
Relocation Support Package ( Anywhere in Vietnam → Da Nang):
● One-time relocation flight ticket
● Monthly housing allowance: VND 5,000,000
● Quarterly home visit flight: One round-trip ticket every 3 months (booked 1 month in advance; changes at employee’s expense)