Senior Software Engineer, Retail Brands

Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda

Ascenda powers the growth of leading financial services brands worldwide with premium rewards programs that differentiate their products, drive profitable customer behaviors, and create sustained engagement. We enable the world-class rewards propositions of major banks and fintechs around the globe.

Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers and fintechs who utilise our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.

With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.

Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint!

We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.

Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services!

About Ascenda, Retail Brands

As a vital member of the Retail Brands team, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the integrations with Gift Card, Offers, and Merchandise suppliers to ensure our platform has a rich selection of content for our users. You’ll work closely with product managers and business development to understand our content needs and develop efficient and scalable integration solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer with the team you will:

• Develop backend features using modern-day frameworks (like Rails), and also sometimes work with frontend development stacks (like Next.js and Angular).

• Implement best practices for performance optimization and accessibility.

• Help own & coordinate major delivery timelines for the projects you own

• Solve big data & hi-traffic problems from the many suppliers we integrate across the ecosystem - problems of performance, tenancy, self-serve configurations

• Write high-quality, maintainable, and reusable code.

• Work closely with designers, product owners, and engineers from multiple teams to develop and design solid user experiences.

• Mentor and guide the growth of junior developers, and act as a gatekeeper for our Content team's engineering practices and development culture

What we're looking for:

• Good technical background in building large scale web applications on a modern backend stack

• Deep experience in backend programming languages such as Ruby, Golang, or any other relevant languages. 3+ years experience in building backends that interact with SPA frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc. Prior experience with our stack (Ruby on Rails, Angular) would be a bonus

• Have experience participating in technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and resolve architectural problems. Have experience mentoring and coaching your junior engineers.

• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the organization

• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.

• At least 3 years of development experience.

• A strong alignment with Ascenda’s core values of growth mindset, hands-on ownership, supportive collaboration, and radical simplicity.

What matters at Ascenda:

We are passionate, we keep things simple, we focus on results, we work together & we innovate!

We have a rewarding working place that provides a:

• High growth environment & exponential career development

• Mobile & flexible work environment

• Competitive compensation

• Travel perks & Employee rewards

Ascenda is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We thank you for your understanding that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.