Senior Software Engineer

v1.0.1

ABOUT THE TEAM

We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and resourceful senior-level engineer to join our growing team based in Australia, Vietnam and the Philippines. As a senior engineer, you will work cross-functionally with various groups and contribute to the design and development of our services across mobile, web, and the backend. Our team comprises senior engineers, performance marketers, designers, and analysts - all working together to ideate, implement, and iterate on our growth machine. 

WHAT SETS US APART

• This is a high-impact role at a small company aggressively growing our user base.
• We are a collaborative team and genuinely enjoy working with each other.
• We believe in empowering our people to be successful. 
• We’re building a product that inspires fairness across the financial world and helps people not be taken advantage of.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Contribute to the design, architecture and implementation of microservices that are robust enough for our exploding scale.
• Participate in implementing new features - break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into an elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code.
• Participate in research and development of new and upcoming technologies, frameworks and best practices.
• Lead others towards a quality-first approach to software development through automated testing.
• Collaborate and mentor other engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams (design, product, marketing, analytics).
• Take ownership of feature releases and production issues across our services infrastructure and multiple stack levels.
• Generate ideas and write experiment idea documents for regular presentations to the team during our weekly experiment idea review sessions.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• Hands-on development experience producing high-quality code using principles and practices that you see best fit the problem space.
• Experience with NodeJS (Typescript) and ExpressJS is critical.
• Experience with React Web/Native.
• Experienced in developing and executing functional and integration tests using Jest or Mocha.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ON THE JOB

• AWS cloud services, including DynamoDB, API Gateway and Lambda.
• Cloud infrastructure as code such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and CDK.
• API security such as JWT and OAuth.
• Continuous integration and delivery tools using Github and CircleCI.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and a bias towards action and results.

 

At PressPay, we believe the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team representing our diverse community. Our team is diverse in background, experience, and perspective.