Backend Developer

About Us:

MatchMove is a leading embedded finance platform that empowers businesses to embed financial services into their applications. We provide innovative solutions across payments, banking-as-a-service, and spend/send management, enabling our clients to drive growth and enhance customer experiences.

Are You The One:

As a Technical Lead (Backend), you will ship software that matters. You will innovate on architecture, write impactful software and generally contribute to enhance output across the Technology team.

You will get the opportunity to contribute to:

• Develop and maintain scalable payment systems: Design, manage, and sustain cross-regional B2B payment transaction systems, ensuring robust, automated, and self-healing infrastructure that meets localization and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver exceptional customer experiences: Build world-class, reliable solutions for internal and external stakeholders, enhancing usability and satisfaction.
• Lead Architecture and technology decisions: Own, scrutinize, and defend key technology and architectural decisions to drive the success of large, complex projects.
• Collaborate and ensure delivery: Work with stakeholders across the organization to ensure predictable engineering output and seamless delivery aligned with the product roadmap.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in OOP, with hands-on experience in Golang, and solid understanding of SDLC practices such as code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration.
• Proficiency in leveraging Generative AI tools as part of day-to-day development activities to accelerate delivery timelines, boost productivity, and foster innovation.
• Strong knowledge of transactional RDBMS like MySQL and Postgres, with experience in schema design, debugging, and problem-solving across the tech stack (language, databases, web servers, system environments).
• Solid understanding of cloud-based deployments, scaling code in production, debugging for performance bottlenecks, and best practices for securing code.
• Team-oriented approach, effective cross-functional collaboration, and providing technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle. Act as a champion for clean, scalable, and high-performance code while advocating for technical standards and quality.
• Experience in Git-based code management, active participation in code reviews, and ensuring adherence to non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) across projects.

MatchMove Culture:

• We cultivate a dynamic and innovative culture that fuels growth, creativity, and collaboration. Our fast-paced fintech environment thrives on adaptability, agility, and open communication.
• We focus on employee development, supporting continuous learning and growth through training programs, learning on the job and mentorship.
• We encourage speaking up, sharing ideas, and taking ownership. Embracing diversity, our team spans across Asia, fostering a rich exchange of perspectives and experiences.
• Together, we harness the power of fintech and e-commerce to make a meaningful impact on people's lives.
• Grow with us and shape the future of fintech and e-commerce. Join us and be part of something bigger!

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Job qualifications:

Technical Skills

• You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Professional Skills

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Other things to know:

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

• You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
• 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
• Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
• Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
• Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
• You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
• Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
• Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
• Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
• Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.

Senior Developer

NOTE- we are looking for those who can join immediately or within 15-20 days of notice period.
Senior Dev with 5 years relevant experience

1. Working experience on web development using Python/Django
2. Comfortable with using Django framework.
3. Understanding of web servers
4. Knowledge in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other database queries
5. Experience in using Redis cache.
6. Understanding of web technologies
7. Experience in REST API development using Django.
8. Strong hold on Apache
9. Integration of data storage solutions
10. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
11. Understanding of JavaScript, and front-end JS frameworks like VueJS, React JS and Angular JS
12. Good communication skill
13. .net/.NET core will be an added advantage