Our Ascend vision is to create life

opportunities with innovative digital services. We are blessed to be operating

in ASEAN, where we are able to help one of the world's largest populations of

underbanked, the people from some of the poorest provinces who are disregarded

by traditional banks. So many lives are

waiting for our help.

In 2017, we served over 30 million customers

in 6 countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines),

and processed over 4.5 billion USD. This makes us by far the largest fintech

company in SE Asia, and growing quickly.

As a member of our Software Architect team,

you will be helping to bring this vision to reality by leveraging software

development practises to build product for millions of Wallet customer. You

will be researching, innovating and coding new things. As well as coaching the

engineering team to boost up development skills to build product with quality.

At Ascend, you will be part of an enthusiastic team who are directly

responsible for improving the lives of millions.

Key Responsibilities

Define all aspects of software

development, roadmaps, guidelines, standards and communicate to engineers,

quality assurance and operation teams

Develop high level system design

with attention to system integration and microservice architecture

Possess an understanding of

cloud-native architectures, and be familiar with implementations involving

service discovery, circuit breakers, client side load balancing, and other

architectural patterns related to elastic infrastructure

Partnering with engineers across

the organization to leverage software engineering practises, concepts and

standards in product development

Identify emerging technologies and

best practises, research and develop prototypes and promote to production

Participate in, and help create, a

company culture which attracts, retains, and coaches other

engineers/architects. The primary

deliverable is to build more successful engineers

Essential Skills & Prerequisites

A positive, can-do attitude, who

naturally expresses a high degree of empathy to others.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer

Science or equivalent work experience.

We are more interested in passion for technology and what you are

capable of, than we are academic qualification

5 or more years of relevant work

experience

Experience in building mission

critical applications from scratch, and decomposing monolithic applications

into smaller services

Good communication skills,

abilities to discuss with technical and non-technical people, present ideas and

motivate people

Experience with a broad mix of

technologies, including a strong subset of:

Core Java 8,9, Spring Boot, Spring

Cloud, NetflixOSS

MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB,

NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ELK)

Messaging or streaming middleware

such as RabbitMQ or Kafka

Cloud platform such as AWS or GCP

Continuous Integration and

Delivery

Experience with distributed

architectures, SOA, microservices and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Experience with Agile and Test

Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.

Familiarity with containers and

their technologies such as Docker

Familiarity with container

orchestration technologies such as Mesos and Kubernetes

Experience with high availability,

high-scale, and performance systems.