Java Microservices 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!

Responsibilities:

Lead the design and development of sophisticated, high availability, and secured

server-side applications with a primary focus on Golang.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, architect

solutions, and deliver high-quality software products.

● Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing your engineering expertise and best

practices to foster skill development within the team.

● Analyze and optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of existing Golang

applications, making strategic improvements where necessary.

● Design and implement automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality,

maintainability, and stability.

● Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in software technologies,

recommending their adoption when appropriate.

● Champion code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical documentation to

maintain high development standards.

● Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, providing innovative solutions to overcome

challenges.

● Contribute to the recruitment and hiring process by participating in interviews,

evaluating candidates, and providing input on hiring decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field.

● 3+ years of experience in software development, with substantial experience in

Golang and cloud infrastructure.

● Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent

applications with Golang.

● Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization

(e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

● Solid knowledge of software testing methodologies and tools, including unit testing

and integration testing for Golang applications.

● Demonstrated ability to lead projects, collaborate effectively with teams, and mentor

junior engineers.

● Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to tackle complex

technical challenges.

● Having prior experience in the FinTech domain would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Define the code review process for the team to follow and perform code reviews.
• Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals.
• Develop and test software & Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE / Java.
• Possess knowledge and skills in software programming in Core Java, J2EE, Microservices-related technologies, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Rest API, JavaScript, and XML.
• Experience developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using Microservices.
• Excellent in design patterns, data structures & algorithms, and OOAD.
• Experience in working with the E-Government Projects/ CCTNS application.

• Experience in managing medium to large scale application project from beginning to end, with skills in requirement study and functional/detail design, QA, testing, and software change/version control management is advantageous

• Expertise in application development, and familiar with C#, Asp.net, jQuery, Webservice (REST/SOAP), Microservice, WCF
• Basic Equities Trading product knowledge is expected
• Familiarity with Equities/trade processing experience is an advantage
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill is a must
• Ability to work under pressure, handle multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines.
• High sense of ownership of task assigned, deliver applications with high quality and efficiency.
• Good communication, inter-personnel skills is required
• Team player with strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Looking for 4 – 8 years’ experience in .NET

• Hands-on Java Engineers, with experience building consumer-facing or enterprise applications using Java stack – Spring, Hibernate, MySQL
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns.

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service-oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real-time streaming or offline batching.
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real-time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop-based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.