Lead Software Engineer (Backend) - Digital Identity

About the role

At GoToFinancial, engineering is central to everything we do: bringing our ideas to life and into the lives of our users. As Backend Engineer for the Infrastructure Engineering team, you'll play an integral part in creating the best developer experience for our product engineers. 

You will take the wheel in building, operating, and maintaining our Digital Identity platform empowering our vision of Financial inclusion for everyone. With this team, you will be presented with ample opportunities to tackle challenging problems. Your efforts will directly improve the productivity of our engineers, and contribute in redefining the financial ecosystem in Indonesia, bringing wider and more inclusive financial services to the region and beyond.

What You Will Do

• Translate our product’s goals into iterative MVPs, evaluate, and then refactor into a scalable and extensible design
• Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improvements to code quality across the team
• Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Operations, Risk, Data Science, QA, etc) on planning and execution
• Manage automated build/test/deployment environments
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency and stability
• Deploy, monitor, maintain, and fix products currently in production

What You Will Need

• At least 6+ years of relevant software development experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications for large-scale applications
• Deep understanding of cryptography and public key infrastructure is essential
• Deep understanding of Microservices (HTTP & GRPC), and programming languages like Java, Golang, Ruby, and Clojure (and a willingness to learn others)
• Experience with Spring Boot, HSM is a huge plus
• Experience with Postgresql, Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP & DevOps: Gitlab CI, Terraform
• Proficiency in OOP, SQL, and Design Patterns; experience with functional programming is a plus
• Strong data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases
• Ability to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery; well-versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation

About the team

Our GoPay team consists of 200+ zealous folk based in Jakarta and Bangalore. As Nasi Goreng is to the people of Indonesia, we are to Gojek: providing the nourishment to sustain our business from the inside out. We run and oversee one of Southeast Asia's largest e-money wallet platforms and Indonesia's leading digital payments provider.

Our service is now accepted by over 300,000 online and offline merchants in Indonesia alone, with our ecosystem processing US$3.6 billion of annualized Gross Transaction Value. But, the growth of Payments does not stop here. We are hungry for more. We intend to become the largest payment and financial services group in Southeast Asia. It's our job to ensure that this number grows, and more importantly, that anyone utilizing our platform is given the most seamless payment experience possible. How does one achieve this, you may ask? By collaborating diligently with our users to understand the daily obstacles they face in the payment arena, and then crafting our products and services to aid these issues.

As a team, we’re concerned not only with the growth of the company but each other’s personal and professional growth, too. Along with a comamon drive to jump over technical barriers and provide sustainable solutions, our team bonds over our shared love for tea, movies, and TV shows.