Senior Software Engineer - Scala

About Tazapay

Tazapay is a Singapore-based B2B payments startup, backed by Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, and RTP Global, enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct secure cross-border commerce. Founded by experts in payments, e-commerce, and cross-border trade, Tazapay is focused on driving digital transformation in the B2B space, addressing post-pandemic shifts and new opportunities with a culture of openness, innovation, and growth.

What Awaits You?

Joining us now means being part of an exceptional team on an exciting journey just as we’re preparing for significant growth. This is a unique opportunity to help build something from the ground up, with the satisfaction of seeing your work impact thousands of users. You’ll experience growth across all areas – Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting, and more – and share in a culture of openness, innovation, and memorable experiences.

Are you ready for the ride?

Explore what you could accomplish with us!

Backend Engineer Role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write, and deliver highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Collaborate with product management to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication regarding deliverables, risks, changes, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA, etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
• Display a strong sense of ownership.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial software development within large distributed systems.

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications on one or more of the following: Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core, or Java for large-scale applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux as a production environment.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.
• Expert in at least one language: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++.
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.
• Ability to design and implement low-latency RESTful services.
• Proven experience in building backend services for high-volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Excellent communication, analytical skills, and design abilities.
• Experience with data modeling in both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Able to continuously refactor applications for high-quality design.
• Skilled in planning, prioritizing, estimating, and executing releases predictably.
• Able to scope, review, and refine user stories for technical completeness and dependency mitigation.
• Eager to learn new technologies and tackle complex challenges.
• “Can-do” attitude.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the Golang ecosystem.
• Experience running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking.
• Knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Strong attention to product details and ability to meet deadlines.
• High focus and precision for extended periods of repetitive tasks.
• Proactive problem-solver with strong anticipation skills.
• Team-oriented and able to assist others in resolving issues.
• Quality-oriented and structured in approach.
• Exceptional planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrated logical and analytical thinking abilities.

If you’re excited by this role, we’d love to see how you can make an impact on our journey.

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

We are looking for software development engineers to design and develop the backend systems for our consumer and partner-facing applications. You will work on massively scalable distributed systems and solve complex engineering problems

Reporting structure - Engineering Manager-Java

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, algorithm design,
• Proficiency with Java, Rabbit MQ, Kafka.
• Proficiency in Mongo DB, Cassandra, Redis.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to architecture and design in a product setup Information Technology
• Understand customer needs by collaborating with Product Managers and Business stakeholders
• Development, delivery and support of large-scale, distributed software applications and tools
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality and maintainability for all deliverables
• Work in an agile, start-up-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
• Take initiatives and come up with new ideas to invent solutions for customer