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Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

StashAwayIskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia
20 days ago
Job description

StashAway Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Overview

StashAway is Asia’s leading digital wealth manager. We’re on a mission to empower people to build long-term wealth, and we’re live across five countries. Our product & engineering teams drive that mission, with a focus on intuitive customer experience and solving hard technical problems.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Trading Squad, you’ll have a foundational impact on the mission-critical trading platform that manages our clients’ wealth. This is a modern distributed system that processes many millions of dollars in daily transactions, and must be fault-tolerant and scalable to support StashAway’s growth. We leverage workflows, message queues, and databases to ensure our business logic is processed reliably and efficiently.

Check out the StashAway Engineering blog to learn more about the tech we use, challenges we face, and solutions we deliver!

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship core features on our trading platform, translating product priorities into high-impact customer experience and back-office functionality
  • Ship well-tested, maintainable solutions that can run high workloads in a rapidly-scaling environment, using Kotlin, Micronaut, Typescript, Temporal, Kafka and other related technologies
  • Take end-to-end ownership of critical systems, ensuring their reliability and performance in production. This includes a strong focus on continuous deployment, observability, and incident response and resolution
  • Raise the team’s technical bar by mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices
  • Leverage technological step changes like GenAI to improve our products, development process, and operations
  • Collaborate in an agile environment with your team, product managers, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver value

What You’ll Bring

  • Proven experience in building production distributed systems at scale, typically seen in engineers with 4+ years of experience
  • Deep expertise in at least one modern programming languages & associated tech stacks. We primarily use Kotlin (JVM) and Typescript (NodeJS) & you’ll be expected to achieve quick proficiency in these
  • A strong product builder’s mindset with a passion for delivering customer value
  • Projects You Might Work On

  • Build new ways for people to invest — ship key functions on our trading platform that expand how our customers build wealth. Recent launches include : Simple Guaranteed, private market investments for accredited investors, ETF Explorer
  • Refactor legacy systems for maximum payoff — address tech debt strategically to improve agility and maintainability
  • Innovate for trading efficiency — partner with operational & investment stakeholders to unlock value, such as building an order netting system or smarter rebalancing rules engine
  • Accountability Of The Role

  • Own the end-to-end success of your team’s initiatives from design to delivery and business impact
  • Ensure the health and reliability of your systems in production, including stability, performance, and incident response
  • Maintain code quality and the long-term health of the platform
  • Foster growth and effectiveness of the team through mentorship and feedback
  • Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with employee stock options (full-time)
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage, including outpatient, hospitalisation, surgical, and Covid-related coverage
  • Employee discount on asset management fees
  • Flexible work arrangements : work from home or office; remote work up to eight weeks in another country
  • Unlimited paid annual leave and a personal work equipment budget
  • Learning and Development

  • Annual L&D budget to support ongoing professional and personal development
  • Team Bonding

  • Quarterly team bonding budget and annual off-site
  • Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

  • Full-time
  • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology
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