StashAway is hiring a
Staff Engineer (Backend)

Summary

The job is for a Staff Engineer in StashAway's Trading Squad to build and maintain their core trading platform using Kotlin, Micronaut, TypeScript, Temporal, and other technologies. The employee will work in a collaborative, agile environment with competitive compensation, comprehensive insurance coverage, flexible work arrangements, learning and development opportunities, and team bonding initiatives.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years work experience as a software engineer
• Experience working on distributed systems and platforms that scale
• Familiar with agile processes, testing and continuous integration
• Strong background in data structures and algorithms
• Highly collaborative and thrives working with a distributed team while also being able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Eager and willing to learn new things, staying up to date with the latest technologies, and expanding your base skill sets to propose new approaches to your work

Responsibilities

• Work on our backend trading platform to build functionality that enables new investment products and features using Kotlin, Micronaut, TypeScript, Temporal, and other related technologies
• Drive core migration work to modernise and optimise older parts of the system
• Design & implement solutions that can run high workloads in a rapidly-scaling environment
• Write testable, clean, efficient code that can be confidently released in production

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with a JVM language such as Kotlin, Scala, or Java is a plus, but not required. However, you will be expected to pick up proficiency in our system’s stack, which is primarily written in Kotlin

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package that includes employee stock options if you are a full-time employee
• Free panel outpatient GP clinic visits, group hospitalisation and surgical insurance, and Covid hospitalisation insurance coverage (conditions apply)
• Management fee discount: You will receive an employee discount on your asset management fees when you invest with StashAway
• Unlimited paid annual leave: It should be simple for you to decide if you would like to take more or fewer days off. We trust that you are accountable for your work and know best if you need 10 or 30 days of paid annual leave that year
• Personal work equipment budget: It’s important that you have a workstation that’s optimal for you wherever you are