Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the role

YouTrip, a multi-currency payment platform in Asia Pacific, is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong backend expertise. The role covers the design, development, testing and maintenance of software systems, and calls for technical expertise, leadership and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers and mentor junior engineers
• Contribute to the design and architecture of complex software solutions
• Write high-quality, scalable and maintainable code and take part in code reviews
• Lead or contribute to project planning and estimation
• Work with product managers to turn requirements into technical solutions
• Create and maintain technical documentation for code, design and architecture
• Collaborate with product management, QA and operations, and share best practices with colleagues

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of software development experience, with substantial backend and cloud infrastructure experience
• Proven ability to lead projects, collaborate with teams and mentor others
• Familiarity with additional languages such as Golang is a plus

Required skills

• Java, Python, Ruby or Scala for high-performance, concurrent applications
• Distributed systems, microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Software testing, including unit and integration testing
• Data structures, algorithms and software design principles