Thunes is the Smart Superhighway for money movement around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes’ Network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, via more than 350 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.
Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house Smart Treasury Management Platform and Fortress Compliance Infrastructure, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivalled speed, control, visibility, protection, and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments globally. Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.
Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, Atlanta, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/
Context of the role
Reporting to the Chief Architect, this role based in Singapore or Barcelona, will be part of our Engineering team working on our Treasury Systems and core services. The ideal candidate should be highly driven, self-motivated and a technically excellent engineering lead who is truly excited about making a meaningful impact within the Company.
You will need to combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader, ensuring that the platform performs while remaining scalable, is able to deliver new functionalities and is able to automate and improve development processes. The Engineering team is responsible for developing our core business products and getting them to production in the most efficient and fastest way possible. We architect solutions, tools and platforms to solve business needs and tools around provisioning, configuration, CICD, monitoring, SLA, performance and uptime. Our team is passionate about the details and we work very closely with a wide range of stakeholders. Although we believe that we have chosen the most optimal tech stack to solve our issues, we rely on our engineers to architect and implement their own solutions. Our core services are hosted on Amazon Web. Our main tech stack consists of PostgreSQL, Python (primary), Golang and AWS cloud environment
We can offer you an environment where we have a culture of learning and feedback. You will be challenged to own your code - write, test, deploy it, multiple times per day. Our technology is used 24/7 and around the world, it needs to be reliable, secure and massively scalable. You will also need to interface with technology teams in different countries.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure excellence and work on highly available services, exposed mainly by APIs, web app development
- Be responsible for the quality of deliverables of team
- Lead, monitor, maintain and own the product you are working on
- Participates in the architecture design, implementation and shipping of new functionalities on our platform/system, configuration APIs
- Timely delivery of high quality, testable, secure, readable, scalable and documented software
- Understands, applies and champions the principles of the agile methodology (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc..)
- Assists in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives
Professional Experiences / Qualifications
- Holding a degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or related fields
- Software engineers that are motivated, curious and have an appetite for learning
- Proficient in Python
- Proficient in one of several following programming/scripting languages: Golang (desire to learn), Perl (nice to have)
- Experience in designing, integrating and implementing web services and REST/JSON APIs
- Experience designing and developing web and API solutions
- Good English communication skills
- Passionate about Agile Methodology and practices (TDD, CI, CD, etc...)
- Interest in the Fintech Industry and market innovations
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What We Do
Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging markets. Our global platform provides seamless transfer of funds between payment systems in more than 100 countries and 60 currencies. We enable mobile wallet providers, technology companies, PSPs, money transfer operators and banks to make financial services accessible worldwide.
We offer four key payment solutions:
•Remittance processing, which fosters worldwide financial inclusion
•Mass payouts, which support globalisation and the sharing economy •Virtual Accounts, which help corporates around the world boost their revenue
•Business payments, which enable businesses to trade easily across borders Since Thunes was established in 2016, we’ve processed real-time transactions for millions of people across the world.
Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Shanghai and New York.
