Software Engineer II, TransferConnect

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 Transfer Connect

Hundreds of companies, from the world's largest banks to the most ambitious fintechs, use TransferConnect to process and handle customer points earn & fulfillments. Our mission is to maximize the value and utility that our millions of loyalty members can gain from their rewards while maintaining the highest standards of system reliability.

That's a huge amount of work ahead for us that means you've got a great opportunity to put the loyalty economy within many more peoples' reach while plumbing the most important work of your career.

About the Role

We're looking for someone who's excited to jump in and get your hands dirty with our team members to help us deliver the largest most scalable set of transfer APIs for our clients globally. We'll build the next generation of loyalty currency services such as cashback & carbon credits together. Your work will enable new types of businesses to run on our platform, at greater scale, while maintaining an extremely high bar for reliability, usability and operations.

What you bring to the table:

• Participate & drive technical projects and and client deliveries that'll continue to help scale Ascenda's offerings and variety of products for our numerous clients.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability.
• Design and implement elegant APIs and their underlying infrastructure. Serve as a role model for software design and scalable systems architecture across Ascenda.
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with other teams, Project, Partnerships etc to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, to the ease of integration, and the expressiveness of our product APIs.
• Serve as a role model for high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and Ops processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers on technical skills sharing and domain exposure, becoming the next generation of subject matter experts at Ascenda.

What we're looking for:

• Strong technical background, prior experience in building large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems on the Cloud. Strong foundation in systems architecture, with a good understanding of infrastructure, networking, and databases. Skilled at optimizing these components while integrating reliability and performance considerations throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Fluent with our main backend programming language - Ruby, or, having a strong aptitude and desire to pick up and be proficient in Ruby.
• Have experience participating in technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and resolve architectural problems.
• Great collaborator, comfortable working across a variety of teams beyond engineering, including product, design, business, operations, customer service, and external stakeholders.
• At least 5 years in development experience.
• Passionate about mentoring and/or leading a group of engineers, guiding and coaching them for high performance
• You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
• A strong alignment with Ascenda's core values of growth mindset, hands-on ownership, supportive collaboration, and radical simplicity.

• Diverse & amazing colleagues
• Dynamic learning culture
• Flexible work schedule
• Comprehensive employee recognition programs
• Exciting travel perks