Sr Software Engineer

Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos’ lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation! G ka ba? Join the G Nation today!

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Co-creates Product Solution Design and technical optimizations
• Consulted during development, coding and testing of the E2E software and/or builds (front-end and back-end) – includes business acceptance
• Implement system and service monitoring. There should always be sufficient monitoring to indicate if there is anything wrong with every production change (one of the 3 Golden Rules)
• Implement the reconciliation. There should always be reconciliation scripts for every fund related project
• Code Review. Build up the common sense of 'no CR no merge'
• Creation and Review of Release Plan and Release Sequence
  • Every release must have capability of staged rollout
  • Every release must have capability of rollback or turn off

• System On Duty L3
  • Online incident fixing
  • Offline issue handling (fund check etc..)
  •  Alerts & monitoring improvement
  • Respond to the duty manager and take action according to the on-duty procedure.
• Write/Updates System Documentation
• Design Engineering Standards & Practices (Log Standards, Transaction Traceability, CICD, Idempotency, Retry, Reading and Writing separation etc.)
• Implements Engineering Standards and Practices (Log Standards, Transaction Traceability, CICD, Idempotency, Retry, Reading and Writing separation etc.)
• Maintain build, CI, tools, source repo, doc repo, other engineering assets
• Maintain deployment tools, scripts, environments
• Product Development Knowledge Management. 

• Review and ensure the quality reliability
• Bootcamp for the new hires
• Regular Review

• System Knowledge Management. Make sure the system standards and roadmap are carried on:
  • Review and ensure the domain quality reliability
  • Bootcamp for the new hires
  • Regular review

• Release Planning and Execution (Standard + Emergency). No mistakes on the deployment plan
  • Review and act  on every mistake and keep improving
  • Bootcamp for the new hires
  • Regular review
• KPI Management and Monitoring
• Engineering Calendar Management
• Engineering Resource Career Development

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS, AND COMPETENCIES

• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for embedded systems.
• Minimum 6 years experience. Must come from a technical background with the ability to read and write source code across multiple languages
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team environment and deliver successful results.
• Worked on cloud and on-premise server environment, integration technologies
• Developed common third-party APIs such as google, Facebook and other web services (ie, REST, SOAP/WSDL)
• Developed systems in Java, PHP, MySQL, Apache, NGinx, HaProxy, Javascript, JQuery, HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience in the open source environments which include Linux (Ubuntu/Red hat), MySQL and Java
• Familiar with basic financial terminology and accounting methods
• Worked on Amazon Web Service , SES, SMTP, Linux OS, Cron
• Familiarity with Big data tools such as Apache Spark and Hadoop
• Exposure to continuous integration, build tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Ant, Liquibase) and scripting
• Exposure to DevOps tools such as Puppet, Chef or Docker would be advantageous
• Use of source code version control – Git, Subversion or Mercurial
• Has People Management Experience
• Can work with low-code platforms

What We Offer

Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game A company that values their people with highly competitive and flexible compensation and benefits package