Senior Software Engineer, Backend Golang

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. We are backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors. We are the largest peer-to-peer financing platform for SMEs across Southeast Asia. We exist to enable SMEs across Southeast Asia with fair and sustainable financial access. Everyday, we enable investors to crowdlend the SME loans and earn returns of up to 14% per annum, while also offering SMEs access to equitable capital for their growth needs. Together, we have crowdfunded over $300M loans to date!

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And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.

Engineering culture is built upon a trust based system in a delivery and innovation driven environment. We allow for flexible work times and locations so that our engineers can be in a working environment where they can do their best work. We encourage collaboration among our squads and continuous learning from each other.

We are looking for backend engineers to design and build the systems that power our core business of lending and Neobanking. As a backend engineer, you will build features that introduce or significantly expand capabilities for our business teams, opening the way to new markets, partners, and other opportunities. Our team is fully remote and growing rapidly over the last few years, but still lean enough not to require excessive specialisation – you will have the opportunity to take on a wide variety of domains.

This position is available for fully remote working arrangements across all cities in Indonesia .

Requirements

What you’ll do

• Design, develop and maintain scalable and highly available systems to empower our fintech platform.
• Work with product managers and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and develop solutions.
• Write clean, reusable, and maintainable code using GoLang and Nodejs.
• Ensure the quality of the code by writing unit tests and integration tests.
• Be on rotational tech support, debug and resolve production issues, and take part in blameless postmortems.
• Plan and execute smooth migrations to new technology as a way of managing technical debt.
• Build tools and automation for our business and operations teams.

What you need to have

• At least 4 years of experience as a backend engineer.
• Proficiency in Golang and Nodejs.
• Solid experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and MySQL. NoSQL experience will be a plus.
• Experience in writing unit tests and integration tests.
• Familiar with microservices architecture and cloud services such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Having experience with Continuous Integration systems e.g. CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, and GitLab
• Have a high level of attention to details
• Have good analytical skills with problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Experience in Agile development methodologies

You may shine in this role if you

• Have a track record of shipping software in a distributed systems environment
• Are enthusiastic about collaborating across departments to solve challenging problems
• Are pragmatic about the need to release less-than-perfect software and continuously iterate on it
• Can identify and articulate trade-offs in software and data design
• Can communicate both technical and business requirements fluently
• Are excited about both learning new things and teaching others

Why Should You Join Us

• You will be empowered to bring our team to the next level. We believe everyone brings in unique skills and experience and we provide you the platform to the best of who you are.
• You will be able to experiment with latest technology and techniques that will deliver business impact.
• You will get to create new tools that will solve unique financial inclusion problems across SEA
• You will dictate the way you wish to work. We are fully supportive with flexi hour and remote working.
• You will get UNLIMITED PAID ANNUAL LEAVES.

Benefits

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible Working - We believe in giving back the control of work life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical Benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
• Mental Health and Wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit!
• Tech Support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity