About our Team:
Our team is building a new generation of digital financial platforms and applications focused on reliability, scalability, and innovation. As a Senior Backend Engineer at GoTymeX, you will collaborate with skilled engineers to design, develop, and maintain backend services that power our digital banking products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in a dynamic Agile environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables from development through deployment and monitoring.
Responsibilities:
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Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and APIs that meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
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Participate in architectural discussions and contribute technical expertise to enhance system design.
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Collaborate effectively with team members across DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver features on schedule.
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Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure service availability and reliability.
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Continuously improve code quality through code reviews, refactoring, and automation.
Requirements
Must-have Qualifications:
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At least 5 years of experience in backend software development.
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Strong programming skills in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or equivalent.
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Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization.
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Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and container technologies.
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Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.
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Ability to analyze complex problems and design appropriate solutions.
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Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Proficiency in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and serverless computing environments.
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Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, as well as Python frameworks including Django and Flask.
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Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
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Prior experience within the financial or banking sectors is considered advantageous.
Desired Skills:
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AI/LLM Engineering: Demonstrated experience integrating large language models for applications including customer support chatbots, document processing, or decision support systems.
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Understanding of Financial Concepts: Knowledge of transaction lifecycles, accounting, reconciliation, and settlement processes.
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Proficiency in programming languages including Java, Kotlin, and Python.
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Experience with frameworks within the Spring ecosystem, recognizing that the majority of backend services utilize Spring technologies.
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Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3, among others.
Our Engineering Principles:
In addition to technical skills, we seek individuals who embody the following core principles:
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Simplicity over complexity: Prioritize the simplest effective solutions; complexity presents unnecessary challenges and costs.
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Lean over lavish: Design cost-effective architectures that maximize value. Critically evaluate all expenditures.
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Pragmatism over perfection: Deliver value incrementally. Strive for a "good enough" solution today rather than a "perfect" solution indefinitely.
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Outcomes over outputs: Assess success based on tangible business impact—such as loans disbursed, default rates reduced, or costs saved—rather than technical elegance alone.
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Enablement over heroics: Foster team success and collaboration rather than relying on individual heroics.
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Learning over knowing: Embrace a growth mindset by acknowledging gaps in knowledge, experimenting, learning from failures, and iterating rapidly.
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Empathy over ego: Listen attentively, respect diverse perspectives, and assume positive intent in all interactions.
Benefits
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15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave
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SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) – we focus on your development
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Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture
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Overseas travel opportunities for training and working related
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Internal Hackathons and company’s events (team building, coffee run, blue card…)
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Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri
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Private Health Insurance
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Paid Time Off
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Work From Home
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Training & Development
