Staff Software Engineer, Travel Delivery

Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda

Ascenda provides the rewards infrastructure for leading financial services brands across the world.

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 Travel Delivery

The Travel Delivery team deals with building and maintaining our multi-tenant frontend services, and work with different teams in ensuring our day to day operability. The Travel Delivery team builds mainly in TypeScript (React & Angular) for our frontends, and also in Ruby (Ruby on Rails) for some of our backend services.

Within the team, you’ll find like-minded, and enthusiastic frontend-focused full stack engineers, excited about the technology we work with. Bonus mention - the team is also led by 2 Google Developer Experts!

As a Staff Software Engineer with our team, you will:

• Scope & lead large technical projects and architecture that will have massive impact in Ascenda & our numerous clients.

• Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability.

• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with other Engineering teams, Technical Project Management etc to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, to the ease of integration, and the expressiveness of our Data strategy & Events architecture.

• Serve as a role model for high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.

• You're a passionate problem solver: Weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team.

• Teach and mentor ICs and managers to become the next generation of experts at Ascenda.

What we're looking for:

• Strong technical background, with prior experience in similar roles such as Tech Lead or Staff level engineering roles.

• Experience building large-scale, high throughput distributed systems on the Cloud. Hands on experience with designing, building and operating event-driven architectures. Experience in building & maintaining SaaS Billing systems a bonus.

• Highly competent with frontend technologies and frameworks - such as Next.js and Angular, and deeply familiar with TypeScript.

• Have experience in developing technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and vision.

• You are a thought leader- Who enjoys formally coaching other team members.

• Passionate about mentoring and/or leading a group of engineers, guiding and coaching them for high performance.

• Familiar with infrastructure and observability tools such as AWS, Grafana, StatsD, Datadog, Prometheus. If this sounds like something you would be keen to hear more about, hit apply.

• You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.

• Have at least 7 years of software development experience.

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.