About DKatalis

DKatalis is a financial technology company with multiple offices in the APAC region. In our quest to build a better financial world, one of our key goals is to create an ecosystem-linked financial services business. DKatalis is built and backed by experienced and successful entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors in Singapore and Indonesia who have more than 30 years of financial domain experience and are from top-tier schools like Stanford, Cambridge London Business School, JNU with more than 30 years of building financial services/banking experience from Bank BTPN, Danamon, Citibank, McKinsey & Co, Northstar, Farallon Capital, and HSBC.

About the role

You will be part of a cross-functional agile engineering team (squad) responsible to build, deploy and run (support) one or more of our digital products, focusing on leading the team to deliver robust & resilient systems (front-end & back-end).You will work closely with Engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders, collaboratively ensuring quality gets built into the product, see your impact in many people's everyday lives, and lead the team while doing it.You will share your learnings within and beyond your team (squad) and mentor budding engineers for good engineering practices. You will foster a culture of providing feedback within the team, between teams, and to stakeholders. You will understand when to provide private feedback and when to provide public feedback. You will also help others to provide feedback.

What will you do

• Working with engineering and product owners to design, refine, and develop the product, from concept to implementation.
• Mentor and Lead the team in creating best-in-class products & experiences for our customers by designing, building, scaling, and evolving our platforms, services, and tools.
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively across cross-functional teams in a multi-cultural environment.
• Mentor and lead a team of highly talented and motivated engineers
• Ensure the performance, security, and responsiveness of applications built
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, automatization, and customer delight
• Drive innovation through experimentation by understanding the purpose of the experimentation and when to fail the experiment.5 You will be able to drive innovation from experimentation results.
• Be able to influence teams within his/her area and lead more senior team members.3

What you need to have

• You have at least 10+ years of professional experience in a similar role developing highly scalable applications.
• Good written and spoken English
• Mastery of some abstract programming concepts and/or design patterns, and in some libraries or frameworks (OOP or FP) 
• Hands-on expertise in Java / Javascript or its derivatives (Typescript, NodeJS, Scala, Kotlin, Springboot, etc)
• Have hands-on experience on one of these front-end developments (Flutter Preferred)
• Experience with Lean/XP practices (TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration/Delivery for both Mobile & Back-end)
• Experience working in Agile Software development
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively across distributed teams in a multicultural environment.
• You’re excited about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs that glue them together
• You’re excited to mentor and groom the team collectively to become their better version of themselves, in realms of technicality and personal development. about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs that glue them together
• A passion for quality and best practices but with a pragmatism that understands the
  balance between perfection and delivering value in a timely manner.

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

The role in a nutshell:

We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.

As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.

Your mission will be:

• Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
• Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Crypto ecosystem.

A little about you:

• A proven background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Previous experience working within Crypto or Blockchain based technologies. 
• Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.  
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see 

What stack we work on:

• Kotlin, Swift & Angular
• Go(lang), gRPC
• Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
• CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
• MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
• Free lunch and snacks
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About DKatalis

DKatalis is a financial technology company with multiple offices in the APAC region. In our quest to build a better financial world, one of our key goals is to create an ecosystem-linked financial services business.

DKatalis is built and backed by experienced and successful entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors in Singapore and Indonesia who have more than 30 years of financial domain experience and are from top-tier schools like Stanford, Cambridge London Business School, JNU with more than 30 years of building financial services/banking experience from Bank BTPN, Danamon, Citibank, McKinsey & Co, Northstar, Farallon Capital, and HSBC.

About the role

You will be part of cross-functional agile engineering team (squad) responsible to build, deploy and run (support) one or more of our digital products, focusing on full-stack experience to build robust & resilient systems (front-end & back-end).

You will work closely with Engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders, collaboratively ensuring quality gets built in the product, get to see your impact in everyday lives of many people, and having great fun while doing it.

You will share your learnings within and beyond your team (squad) and mentor budding engineers for good engineering practices

What will you do

• Working with engineering+product owners to design, refine and develop the product, from concept to implementation.
• Main contributor in creating best in-class product & experience for our customers by designing, building, scaling, and evolving our platforms, services, and tools
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across cross functional teams in a multi-cultural environment
• Mentor a team of highly talented and motivated engineers
• Ensure the performance, security, and responsiveness of applications built
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, automatization and customer delight

What you need to have

• You have at least 10+ years of professional experience in a similar role developing highly scalable applications
• Good written and spoken English
• Hands on expertise in Java / Javascript or its derivatives (Typescript, NodeJS, Scala, Kotlin, Springboot, etc)
• Have hands on experience on one of this front-end development (Flutter Preferred)
• Experience to Lean/XP practices (TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration/Delivery for both Mobile & Back-end)
• Experience working in Agile Software development
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively across distributed teams in a multicultural environment.
• You’re excited about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs that glue them together
• A passion for quality and best practices but with a pragmatism that understands the
  balance between perfection and delivering value in a timely manner.
• Enjoys mentoring more junior engineers on good engineering practices & share knowledge