Senior Backend Engineer

At Aspire were more than just a FinTech companywere the leading allinone financial operating system built to empower the worlds innovators and entrepreneurs. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance empowering startups and businesses to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018 Aspire has raised over USD 300M across equity and debt from worldclass investors. In 2023 we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent Paypal Ventures LGT Capital Partners Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and empowered more than 50000 businesses using our suite of products.

Aspire has consistently been recognized for excellence earning Best Employer and Startup of the Year by the Asia FinTech Awards in 2022 and 2023 ranked as LinkedIns Top Startup in Singapore and listed on CB Insights Top 100 Global Fintech in 2023 and 2024.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of exentrepreneurs exfounders and highachievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space!

About the team:

At Aspire we believe that technology has the power to revolutionize the way businesses manage finances. Our Engineering Team is at the forefront of this transformative journey responsible for designing building and maintaining Aspires exceptional products and infrastructure. We take pride in developing cuttingedge digital first technology solutions that simplifies financial services for businesses.

About the role:

We are hiring Senior Backend Engineers who have experience in building backend systems in the cloud. As we enter our next phase we are focused on building a nextgeneration architecture that can sustain high growth and endure for years to come. To help us on this journey were seeking highly skilled technical professionals with diverse backgrounds who can help us accelerate and enhance our technical capabilities on this journey. You will be building a leading fintech product across SouthEast Asia on an international & diverse team.

What will you be doing

• Design develop and maintain cutting edge webbased fintech products
• Defining the software architecture and building the scalable & fault tolerance system
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in development
• Communicate effectively in English across Engineering Product UX teams on daily basis

We would love to get to know you if you have the following:

• Graduated with a Computer Science degree with 4 to 8 years of working experience in software engineering role
• Working experience of startups or good tech companies with education from top universities.
• Strong handson and proficient in at least one backend programming language such as PHP Go Python Node.js Java etc.
• Strong Understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
• Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns
• Code Quality: Focus on code quality and best practices and ability to ensure code quality in the work.
• Code Review: Ability to review code identify bugs and provide feedback to ensure code quality standards are met.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing: Experience in writing and executing unit tests and integration tests as well as debugging skills.
• Strong problemsolving skills and ability to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and experience working in an agile environment.
• Strong communication skills and collaboration skills

Nice to have:

• Experience working in strong techoriented companies
• Working experience with full stack development particular on frontend mobile
• Exposure of DevOps with AWS
• Good to have work exposure to databases and monitoring tools
• Fintech domain experience

What we offer

• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Wellness benefit.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
• Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.
  

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