Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Ajaib, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, testing, and deploying elegant software solutions that impact millions of investors. You will collaborate with product and business leaders to provide solution guidance, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to our startup engineering culture with ideas and suggestions.

Every team has its specialty and uniqueness, and our Technology team is no exception! In addition, our Technology team has its DNA that makes our team different and excels at what they do.

Impact Driven: We are driven to create products that not only focus on user experience but also make a social impact as a bigger purpose.

Craftsmanship: To us, building a product is an art. We carefully craft every detail and ensure we have a strong sense of ownership.

Pushing Boundaries: Comfort zone is not a place we want to stay in. We keep innovating to keep our minds sharp.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy elegant software solutions impacting millions of investors.
• Deliver high-performance, low-latency services with complex requirements.
• Build and optimize fault-tolerant distributed systems under rapid growth demands.
• Collaborate with product and business leaders to provide solution guidance.
• Share past experiences and mentor fellow engineers in improving their crafts together with work discipline.
• Contribute actively to our startup engineering culture with ideas and suggestions.
• Deploy to hybrid environments and provide technical assistance.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years of software development experience, preferably in distributed systems or full-stack architecture.
• Highly proficient in one or more programming languages, including Java, C, Go, or Python.
• Solid knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and MySQL. Tuning and query optimization is a plus.
• Skilled practitioner of deployments onto cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) and on-premise environments.
• Experience with FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol is a bonus.
• Able to work individually with limited guidance, responsible for their work, and self-motivated.
• Passionate about technology and software development. Owns an innate desire to never stop learning.

At Ajaib, we recognize how some of us can’t fit into only one type of work arrangement. That’s why we strive to have options and build the foundation of a flexible work structure and culture where “work can be from anywhere (WFA)”. Work From Office (WFO) will become a WFA alternative when employees want to socialize and bond with colleagues in the office space.

Join us as we make magic happen to increase Indonesia’s financial inclusion!