Senior Software Developer

Role

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who can own the entire technical stack, design systems that scale, and ship products fast. You will work across frontend, backend, and AI systems, making key architectural decisions while building a product used by real users.

This role offers high ownership, where engineers move ideas to production quickly and take responsibility for both technical decisions and product impact.

What would you do?

• Build and own the end-to-end platform using React, Node.js microservices, Python AI agents, and AWS.
• Design and implement scalable system architecture, including caching, databases, and state management between AI and UI.
• Develop AI-powered backend services and orchestrate LLM workflows using modern frameworks.
• Build highly interactive front-end experiences using modern React and real-time communication tools.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, monorepo structures, and development workflows.
• Collaborate closely with users and product teams to identify problems and ship impactful solutions.
• Continuously simplify systems by removing unnecessary complexity and keeping architecture clean.

Who should apply?

• Engineers with 4+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade products.
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and scalable backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with Python (FastAPI, async systems) and LLM-based applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript with Node.js and modern backend frameworks.
• Experience building modern frontend applications using React (React 18+).
• Familiarity with databases such as Redis, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, and designing scalable APIs.
• Engineers comfortable working in fast-paced environments with high ownership and minimal process overhead.

Technical Skills

• Backend: Node.js, Express, Python, FastAPI
• Frontend: React (React 18+), interactive UI development
• AI/LLM Systems: LLM orchestration, multi-model integrations
• Databases: Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture
• Real-time Systems: Socket.IO, Server-Sent Events (SSE)

• Must have hands-on experience in web applications development, and open-source technologies stack (Node.JS, React JS, Gatsby, PHP, etc.).
• Resolution conflicts and understands the logical implementation to find optimal solutions.
• Experience in developing end-to-end solutions and backend architecture.
• Ability to apply advanced concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Advanced knowledge of back-end configuration and deployments.
• Advanced understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Advanced knowledge Git source code management.
• Minimum 8 years of experience required.

Intro

We are looking for an Software Engineer (SDE1) to join our team and drive the technology growth of our pay later platform. At Rely, we want passionate and talented individuals that want a challenge building the next generation payment products for Millennials across Asia. Together we will build the best products using amazing technology.

What will you do

• Design and implement business critical, high performance large scale services.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution and customer delight.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
• Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments.
• Work with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread goals across the team.
  
  

What will you need

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with python and a backend framework (ideally django)
• 1+ years Hands-on experience working with Javascript and JS frameworks (Angular, React)
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications large scale applications in any language or stack
• Experience working with high scale distributed systems.
• Practical knowledge of scalable software design.
• Good working knowledge of AWS
• Proficient with APIs, web protocols, OAuth, git.
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Well versed with Lean methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.

What would be a bonus

• Experience in production environments with large data sets
• Experience in scaling systems to millions of users.
• Work experience in a fast-growth startup
• Experience in DevOps tools but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience in Gunicorn and Nginx