Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
About The Job
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 are the engine that drives that mission, with a relentless focus on intuitive customer experience and solving the hard technical problems that come along the way.
As a Senior Software Engineer in our 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 enough to handle StashAway’s rapid pace of growth. We leverage workflows, message queues, and databases to ensure our business logic is processed reliably and efficiently.
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.
Qualifications
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 language & associated tech stack. 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
You'll tackle a diverse range of high‑impact challenges, including :
Build new ways for people to invest – You’ll ship key functions on our trading platform that expand how our customer build wealth. Recent launches include Simple Guaranteed, private market investments for accredited investors, and ETF Explorer.Refactor legacy systems for maximum payoff – We believe in tackling tech debt strategically. Execute high‑impact refactors to pay down the right tech debt at the right time. The refactors we’ve shipped for dividend handling and fee charging have contributed to our team’s increased agility in both delivery and support.Innovate for trading efficiency – You’ll partner with operational & investment stakeholders to unlock hidden value in our platform. This can mean building an order netting system to speed up transactions & reduce costs, creating a smarter rebalancing rules engine, or building tools that make our trading operations faster for both customers and our team.Accountability Of The Role
The end‑to‑end success of your team’s initiatives, from initial technical design, to implementation and delivery, to business impact.The health and reliability of your systems in production, including their stability, performance, and the effectiveness of your response to any incidents.The quality and maintainability of the code you and your team ship, contributing positively to the long‑term health of our platform.The growth and effectiveness of your team, elevating your teammates’ capabilities through peer mentorship, code reviews, and fostering a culture of feedback.Benefits
Competitive total compensation package that includes employee stock options if you are a full‑time employee.Comprehensive insurance coverage : free panel outpatient GP clinic visits, group hospitalisation and surgical insurance, and Covid hospitalisation insurance coverage (conditions apply).Employee discount on asset management fees.Flexible work arrangements : work‑from‑home policy, work‑from‑anywhere policy up to eight weeks in another country, unlimited paid annual leave, personal work equipment budget.Learning and development opportunities : annual L&D budget.Team bonding budget and initiatives : quarterly team bonding budget, annual off‑site (Q4).#J-18808-Ljbffr