Senior Backend Engineer (Numerical Engineering)
Full Time
Others
Job Description
About us
Endowus is Asia's leading fee-only digital wealth platform. Headquartered in Singapore, we are the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS), helping all investors grow their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low & fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.
Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones. Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.
The people you will work with
The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse, The Blackstone Group, AQR, Grab, Dropbox, Lyft, Redmart, Carousell, Bytedance, Grab, Kakao, Alibaba, and more. See our leadership team here . We practise inclusion and treasure our diversity in background and experience. A diverse team is our biggest asset and we look for people who share our belief in Endowus' clear mission.
Investors, recognition, licensing
Endowus is backed by global leading strategic and venture capital investors including UBS, Samsung Ventures, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, ZVC, Singtel Innov8, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and SoftBank Ventures Asia.
Endowus has been recognised by the industry with the following awards: Singapore's Rising Star and Fintech Innovation (Asia Asset Management's Best of the Best Awards 2021), LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2021, WealthTech of the Year (Asia FinTech Awards 2021), and the top 15 Singapore's Best Workplaces Award (Great Place to Work).
Endowus is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
About this team
The Numerical Engineering Team develops sophisticated systems that compute various statistics, time series, and financial performance benchmarks, all to bring better value per investment to our customers. While certain mathematical knowledge is required in order to successfully navigate the logic behind the computations, we are primarily an engineering team responsible for making sure our systems have high throughput, performance, scalability and resilience. We also aspire to be self-sufficient in DevOps matters.
About this role; responsibilities & ownership
Endowus is Asia's leading fee-only digital wealth platform. Headquartered in Singapore, we are the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS), helping all investors grow their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low & fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.
Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones. Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.
The people you will work with
The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse, The Blackstone Group, AQR, Grab, Dropbox, Lyft, Redmart, Carousell, Bytedance, Grab, Kakao, Alibaba, and more. See our leadership team here . We practise inclusion and treasure our diversity in background and experience. A diverse team is our biggest asset and we look for people who share our belief in Endowus' clear mission.
Investors, recognition, licensing
Endowus is backed by global leading strategic and venture capital investors including UBS, Samsung Ventures, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, ZVC, Singtel Innov8, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and SoftBank Ventures Asia.
Endowus has been recognised by the industry with the following awards: Singapore's Rising Star and Fintech Innovation (Asia Asset Management's Best of the Best Awards 2021), LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2021, WealthTech of the Year (Asia FinTech Awards 2021), and the top 15 Singapore's Best Workplaces Award (Great Place to Work).
Endowus is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
About this team
The Numerical Engineering Team develops sophisticated systems that compute various statistics, time series, and financial performance benchmarks, all to bring better value per investment to our customers. While certain mathematical knowledge is required in order to successfully navigate the logic behind the computations, we are primarily an engineering team responsible for making sure our systems have high throughput, performance, scalability and resilience. We also aspire to be self-sufficient in DevOps matters.
About this role; responsibilities & ownership
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys driving innovation through iterative development.
- You will need to leverage Event Sourcing systems (Scala) and take significant ownership of systems design, development, deployment, monitoring, infrastructure, and production support.
- You will also drive continuous performance & scalability improvement work to ensure we continue to meet our non-functional goals as our business grows.
- Bachelors' or above in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5-8 years of experience developing distributed systems and building larger infrastructure setups from scratch
- Strong experience with multiple languages including at least one JVM language like Scala (preferably), Kotlin, or Java.
- Experience with shell scripting is essential. Familiarity with Rust will be quite useful.
- Self-driven, has a strong sense of ownership and able to work and learn independently
- Interest in mentoring and guiding Junior Engineers and promoting best practices across team boundaries
- Managed mission-critical products, e.g. trading platforms, medical applications
- Basic knowledge of finance and trading
- Understanding of basic statistical concepts
- Knowledge on how to debug and resolve issues down to the network level
- Exposure to CQRS / Event Sourcing patterns and reactive programming
- Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters and declaring infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc.)
- Experience in Cassandra and PostgreSQL databases
- Experience in QA and load testing
- We are open to hiring remotely in Asia time zones.
- Stock options in a fast growing company *
- Employee discount for investing at Endowus
- Flexible working hours and locations so you can live life and your best work - you are trusted to be responsible
- Competitive Staff Benefits; Annual Leave, Medical insurance, Dental *
- Productivity Equipment; Omnidesk Standing Desk & Ergonomic Chairs, Dell UltraSharp USB Type-C Monitor, high-end computer peripherals
- Choice of Apple or PC equipment
- Additional S$250 /HKD 1450 budget for your favourite hardware to boost productivity *
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