Senior Software Engineer - Data (Node.js, Python, Restful API)
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
The Data team is responsible for conceiving and delivering a range of data products. These may be used to assist in verification and management of users’ identity or financial risk assessment and be the first of their kind in SE Asia. We also provide high availability, performant shared services to support enhanced payment experiences for merchants and users across the Xendit group. As a part of this process, we need to iterate quickly and discover what customers want, as well as design systems which are set up for future scale. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for hands-on delivery, laying out the technical roadmap and supporting your team through mentoring and coaching.
Outcomes
- Maintain and improve mission critical data products that support the Xendit group, optimising for processing speed, fault tolerance and uptime
- Experiment and rapidly prototype new data products for testing with clients
- Develop clear technical requirements and lead development of software to those standards
- Advance engineering standards, tooling and processes to build team efficiency
- Proactively define and maintain a long term technical roadmap for all data products, and deliver it on time
- Mentor and up-skill colleagues on a day-to-day basis
- Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 5+ years of experience designing, developing and deploying large scale software applications
- Have a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- Are experienced in NodeJS and Python. Bonus points if you are a fullstack developer and/or have experience with crawlers
- Worked on RESTful APIs, large-scale data and machine learning pipelines
- Transition fluidly from big picture business requirements and company standards to writing detailed technical specifications and user stories
- Are comfortable in an ambiguous or fast-paced startup environment
- Pick solutions that are fit for purpose, whether to drive continuous improvement on the core data products and rapid experimentation on newer areas
- Develop MVPs that can be incrementally extended to production ready products
- Communicate well with data scientists, data engineers and the wide range of other teams relying on our data products
- Enjoy talking with stakeholders to understand why a problem matters to them
- Thrive on autonomy and have proven you can push towards a goal by yourself
- Bonus points if:
- You’ve worked specifically in a data product business that supplies identity verification, credit or fraud risk assessment products
- You’ve successfully moved products from MVP to rapid scaling afterwards
