Lead Backend Engineer - International Team (SDE 4)

Lead Backend Engineer

Kredivo is a fun, fast growing company with lofty ambitions. Starting with instant ecommerce financing, we are on a goal to disrupt unsecured lending in Southeast Asia, one of the fastest growing economic regions globally. Our first product, Kredivo, which integrates at merchant checkout, qualifies e-commerce buyers for instant ecommerce purchase financing at rates, which are much lower than consumer finance companies. We do this by using breakthrough technology and science to unlock unprecedented insights about credit risk and fraud from multiple data sources: phone, social networks, telco, financial and location data.

We are one of the fastest growing fintech companies in SEA. The company has raised more than US$35m in VC funding from top investors and has won multiple awards: top 100 fintech globally, #1 fintech startup in SEA, and top 30 global startup by Google.

Kredivo Group is looking for Lead Backend Engineer to join their R&D center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The team is responsible for developing new product functionality for Kredivo, build scalable services and tools using open source frameworks/cloud infrastructure and integrate machine learning models for real-time credit scoring and fraud detection. Candidates should have strong background in developing scalable microservices using event driven architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software team to build features and solutions that support business priorities across distributed teams in a global environment.
• Work closely with your manager to align the priorities of your team with the priorities of the entire organization.
• Apply engineering best practices to ensure high-quality outcomes, and work with your counterparts from product and business teams to continuously innovate for our customers.
• Focus on increasing productivity of your team by building processes around testing, code review, coding conventions, etc. and removing unnecessary/outdated processes/barriers.
• Define quantifiable measurements to continuously evaluate the team productivity and outcome quality. Manage the performance of your team, and constantly look for opportunities to optimize and take action with a carefully thought-through plan.
• Coach team members to help them become better professionals and engineers.
• Demonstrate ownership of multiple functional workflows. Own the technical designs, estimation, development and delivery of high-complexity projects by having the most suitable tech stack, infrastructure, security, performance, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Hire, coach, and build a strong bench of talented engineers.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in developing, testing, and deploying large-scale applications in any language or stack.
• At least 1 year of experience in leading a team of engineers.
• Extensive experience in general-purpose programming languages, but willing to work in golang or python.
• Proficient in HTTP, Web Services, OAuth, and Restful APIs.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals.
• Strong data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Self-driven with a passion for learning new things quickly, solving challenging problems, and the drive to get better steadily without the need for constant/significant feedback.
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) and analytical skills with attention to details.
• Strong individual contributor, trusted problem solver and engages proactively in the team level initiatives to bring positive change from their involvement.
• Strong understanding of clean architecture, S.O.L.I.D principles and event-driven architecture. Experience with message broker services like SQS, Kafka, etc.
• Good experience with cloud-based systems and infrastructure services like AWS, GCP, etc.