Experiments - Tech Lead
Xendit provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia and the Philippines. We process payments, power marketplaces, disburse payroll and loans, provide KYC solutions, prevent fraud, and help businesses grow exponentially. We serve our customers by providing a suite of world-class APIs, eCommerce platform integrations, and easy to use applications for individual entrepreneurs, SMEs, and enterprises alike.
Our main focus is building the most advanced payment rails for Southeast Asia, with a clear goal in mind — to make payments across in SEA simple, secure and easy for everyone. We serve thousands of businesses ranging from SMEs to multinational enterprises, and process millions of transactions monthly. We’ve been growing rapidly since our inception in 2015, onboarding hundreds of new customers every month, and backed by global top-10 VCs. We’re proud to be featured on among the fastest growing companies by Y-Combinator.
Mission
Our Experiments team builds growth engines for Xendit through experimental products. We do this by pushing the frontiers of what is possible in the industry and creating modern solutions to old problems.
We're looking for an experienced software engineer to innovate and iterate our way to a great solution for our mobile platform. It will help if you have a strong interest in growth (personally and professionally) and, therefore, a continuous improvement mindset.
We also highly regard someone that is unyielding in reliable, scalable, and readable code.
You will join a small technical team and make technical decisions that will drive growth for our company. To solve for customers, you will also work closely with our business teams and work directly with our CEO.
The Role
As a Tech Lead for Experiments team, you will be working closely with a core team of engineers, designers, and customer experts to design and implement solutions for platform customers. Your primary goal will develop, maintain and improve solutions to solve critical pain points experienced by our customers. As a Tech Lead, you will also be responsible for a longer term technical roadmap and help mentor and coach other engineers.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead a team of engineers to build and maintain high quality applications
- Coordinate with PMs and QAs on the timeframe for release of new features
- jakWork closely with PMs to:
- Build customer-oriented products
- Plan roadmaps for the next 3-6 months
- Manage existing tech debt
- Lead scrum ceremonies (stand ups, grooming, retrospective)
- Identify risks and form contingency plans
- Manage team morale
- Work together with engineering managers to deliver organizational engineering direction
- Plan for resourcing as needed by the team
- Manage team level documentation
- Manage career growth of the engineers of the team
- Identify, resolve, and improve toil and issues encountered
- Coordinate with internal teams
- Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed
What we’re looking for
- At least 2 years of experience in Technical Lead/ Team Lead role
- Demonstrated knowledge of one of Typescript/NodeJS/Go, Web Services (RESTful), SQL/PostgreSQL and publish-subscribe design patterns
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English, can explain complex ideas with specific examples
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Experience with service based or micro service architecture
- Experience with banking tech stack
- Hands-on technical experience on building and maintaining cloud based app, using CI/CD platforms, monitoring and logging tools
- Current role: senior software engineer, tech lead, senior developer, team lead
