Lead Software Engineer - Back End

Responsibilities

• Own the full product lifecycle from business requirements and technology selection through coding, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational support.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend platforms, data pipelines, and storage solutions for fintech products.
• Build stable, scalable, highly performant systems for financial technology use cases.
• Improve code quality and mentor engineers across the team and wider organization.
• Collaborate with product, finance, engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
• Lead projects, initiatives, and teams with full ownership of the systems involved.
• Recruit and onboard exceptional technical talent.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing high-performance production applications.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or C#.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop and Apache Spark, plus advanced SQL and data architecture knowledge.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
• Understanding of system edge cases, failure modes, lifecycles, metrics, alarms, dashboards, and operational excellence.
• Experience with Scrum or Agile development methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Preferred experience in modern fintech or payments organizations and domains such as reconciliation, financial reporting, tax, virtual credit cards, or customer payments.
• Preferred hands-on experience with Spark, ETL data pipelines, Kafka, RabbitMQ, GitLab, and Kubernetes.
• Preferred experience leading projects, initiatives, or teams.

Benefits

• Relocation package provided for the Bangkok, Thailand-based position.
• The role is listed as hybrid and requires working in Bangkok.