Middle Backend Developer Golang

Company Description

1LONG is a digital wealth management company that provides innovative investment products and wealth solutions for Vietnam's aspirational affluent. We're founded by proven operators from leading fintech companies in Southeast Asia and Vietnam, including Anfin and Homebase. Our obsession to execute at speed, asymmetric access to capital, and elite talent composed of Wall Street veterans are what sets us apart.

Our world-class team comprises talent from world-class institutions such as the University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins University, Monash University, Y Combinator, as well as storied Wall Street investment banks Lazard and TD Securities.

Position Overall Description

We are looking for an experienced Middle-level Backend Engineer to join our IT team. As a Middle-Level Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our backend systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy scalable and robust backend solutions that power our applications. This role requires a strong foundation in backend development, problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality software.

Principal Accountabilities

• Apply test-driven development principles to develop, enhance, and sustain medium to large complex applications in a cloud environment
• Collaborate with customer product owners and cross-functional agile team to support working sessions and to evaluate, define, and prioritize requirements/features/user stories
• Contribute to technical research/analysis of user stories and participate in agile ceremonies including backlog grooming and sprint planning,
• Conduct unit testing and contribute to set up of automated testing while collaborating with testers to address found issues/bugs, and support team with documentation required by the client
• Support demos and provide technical support to end-users for UAT and/or production

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proficient in backend service development with solid experience with Golang.
• Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP. (e.g., AWS)
• Knowledge of message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub) and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with backend frameworks (e.g., Gin, Echo,..).
• Knowledge of gRPC for efficient communication between microservices.
• Strong understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and experience with ORM frameworks.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of software development best practices including version control (Git), testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Comfortable developing in a highly collaborative agile development environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, shared ownership, test-driven development, etc.)
• Solid communication skills and collaborative approach with clients, team members, and partners.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools.
• Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in the developer community.
• Previous experience in a startup or fast-paced, financial environment.
• Understand the entire software development process, software development models, software project, and management process according to Agile/Scrum.

• Attractive package including base salary + employee stock options.
• Take on high-impact projects that have the potential to shape the future of wealth tech in Vietnam
• Work with world-class team members, proven operators, and Wall Street veterans hailing from leading organizations, such as University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins, Monash University, Y Combinator, Lazard, TD Securities, etc.
• Accelerated career path with arguably the most exciting fintech startup in Vietnam.
• Flexible work schedule of 3 days in office (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and 2 days working from anywhere (Tuesday, Thursday).