Senior Software Engineer (Fintech) (Bangkok based – Relocation provided) at Agoda

About the Job

The Opportunity

• We are looking for engineers with experience in the fintech area. This can be a year or two at a fintech startup right through to an expert in this domain. You might have a background as ‘ back end ’ or ‘data’ engineer , either way we are looking for smart engineers who can be super agile, move fast and have an eye for detail.
• We’d love to hear from you if you are skilled in any of the technologies we work with and excited at building new fintech techonology.

In This Role, You’ll Get to

• Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection , coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing , to CI/CD and proper monitoring
• Design, develop and maintain platforms and data pipelines across fintech
• Improve scalability, stability, and efficiency of our existing systems
• Write great code and help others write great code – mentor people in your team and wider
• Collaborate with other teams and departments
• Help us hire extraordinary talent such as yourself!

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Experience under your belt developing mission-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala , Java or C#
• Data platforms like Hadoop and SQL. Understand that different applications have different data requirements.
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structure s
• Strong c oding ability
• You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

It’s Great If You Have

• Experience working in a modern FinTech or Payments organization.
• Domain knowledge in any of these areas: financial reconciliation, financial reporting, tax, payout methods like vertical credit cards or customer payments.
• Hands -on experience working with technologies like Spark for data processing, ETLs for data pipelines and q ueueing system s (Kafka, RabbitMQ ).
• Experience building and running transactional/financial systems
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git Lab for source control and Continuous Integration , Kubernetes, and Puppet for deployment
• Experience in large-scale distributed designs
• Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved