About the role

Our Ascend vision is to create life opportunities with innovative digital services. Operating in Southeast Asia, we are able to help one of the world’s largest populations of underbanked, the people from some of the poorest provinces who are disregarded by traditional banks. So many lives are waiting for our help.

In 2018, we served over 30 million customers in 6 countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines), and processed over 4.5 billion USD. This makes us by far the largest fintech company in SE Asia and growing quickly.

As a member of our talented Engineering team, you will help to bring this vision to reality by leveraging the most modern cloud-native technologies. At Ascend, you will be part of a team who are directly responsible for improving the lives of millions

Job Description

• Work in an agile team to build/develop features and technologies across various aspects of the Java stack, primarily focused on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud/NetflixOSS.
• CI/CD deployments on a Kubernetes-based platform, both on-premises and on multi-cloud infrastructure. (AWS and GCP)
• Possess an understanding of cloud-native architectures and be familiar with implementations involving service discovery, circuit breakers, client-side load balancing, and other architectural patterns related to elastic infrastructure.
• Participate in, and help create a company culture that attracts, retains, and coaches other engineers. The primary deliverable of a senior engineer is more senior engineers.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Provide specific technical expertise to help drive innovation.
• Identify emerging technologies to create leading-edge banking products
• Partnering with architects and platform engineers to build strategies for execution, drive and facilitate key decisions, and influence others, and lead change where appropriate.

Qualifications

• A positive, can-do attitude, who naturally expresses a high degree of empathy to others
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant work experience. Or 3+ years for senior position.
• Experience in building complex applications from scratch and decomposing monolithic applications into micro-services.
• Experience with a broad mix of technologies, including a strong subset of:

1. Minimum of core Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud

2. Kubernetes (or Docker/ Mesos and equivalent)

3. MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)

4. RabbitMQ, Kafka

5. AWS & GCP

6. API Gateway

7. Linux

8. CI/CD (Jenkins, Git)

9. React.JS (Optional)

• Experience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices, and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
• Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems.
• Experience in Automation testing/ or Unit testing is a plus.

Location: True Digital Park, Bangkok