Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - AGI

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Developer to join our growing team, responsible for building and maintaining our calling platform. This platform is a mission-critical service that manages the routing of phone calls, schedules, and relays messages, and handles payment processing, making debt recovery more efficient.

As a Senior Developer, you will play a vital role in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and resilient systems. You will collaborate with a team of talented engineers to build and improve upon our existing microservices architecture, driving innovation and efficiency within our platform. Our current stack is heavily Python-based, utilizing frameworks like FastAPI and tools such as SQLAlchemy, Redis, Celery, and more. We are committed to expanding our technological horizons and are planning to incorporate more languages, particularly Golang, into our ecosystem to leverage its strengths in performance and concurrency, aligning with the practices of other teams within the company. In addition to backend services, we are also seeking engineers who can contribute to building dynamic and responsive user interfaces using modern front-end techniques.

Base Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a proven track record of building and deploying production-ready applications.
• Strong proficiency in either Python, Golang, Node.js or C# and their associated ecosystem.
• Willingness to move to another if required. 
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis).
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Domain Expertise (You’re likely to be using one or more of these concepts described here for your day-to-day)

• Experience in writing detailed technical specification and documentation. 
• Proven experience in optimizing database performance, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema design.
• Experience with database profiling tools and techniques to identify and resolve database bottlenecks
• Strong SQL skills, particularly with PostgreSQL (or similar).
• Experience with domain driven design and test driven development
• Familiarity with UDP, websockets, VoIP protocols (SIP, RTP, WebRTC) and their underlying mechanisms.
• Familiarity with telephony signaling and media processing.
• Familiarity with codecs, cloud telephony platforms, routing and their impact on call quality.
• Familiarity with call routing, IVR systems, and call queuing.
• Familiarity with concepts such as consistent hashing, lock free data structures and orchestration

What we offer

• Competitive compensation package, including 13th-month salary and performance bonuses
• Comprehensive health care coverage for you and your dependents
• Generous leave policies, including annual leave, sick leave, and flexible work hours
• Convenient central district 1 office location, next to a future metro station
• Onsite lunch with multiple options, including vegetarian
• Grab for work allowance and fully equipped workstations
• Fun and engaging team building activities, sponsored sports clubs, and happy hour every Thursday
• Unlimited free coffee, tea, snacks, and fruit to keep you energized
• An opportunity to make a social impact by helping to democratize credit access in emerging markets

About us

We are an AI Fintech company specializing in assessing credit profiles of consumers in emerging markets combining pioneering AI with large alternative data sources. In 2020 we reached our ambitious milestone of credit profiling 1 billion consumers spanning 4 countries - Vietnam, Indonesia, India & the Philippines - and building a platform for the wider industry and the financial services industry, in particular, to provide the "un & under" served access to credit. At the core of this initiative has been our strict and unwavering adherence to the norms of consumer data privacy and consumer data rights.

But we're not satisfied as we embark on the next leg of our journey to deliver 100 million credit lines to consumers in the markets where we operate. Although this goal is ambitious, we truly believe that by harnessing the power of AI & Big Data we can deliver financial access at an unprecedented scale.

As a firm, we're audacious problem-solvers motivated by our impact on society. We deeply espouse the values of ownership - of our actions and initiatives, integrity in all we do, and agility in execution.

We place great importance on doing what is right, what is best, and what is innovative. If you are smart, driven, and want to make a difference in the world with the most advanced and fascinating technology, come join our team. We can satisfy your desire to explore new territory and give you the runway to really make an impact. 

Additional Info

Learn more about us here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inAEDGvOcL8&t=29s