Senior Software Engineer - DisbursementXendit

Architect and build world-class payout APIs
Xendit is an Indonesian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud and helps other businesses grow exponentially. We serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs and a dashboard UI that simplifies processes.
Our main focus is to build the most advanced payment rails for Indonesia, with a clear goal in mind - to make payments in Indonesia simple, secure and easy for everyone. We currently serve local SMEs to some of Indonesia's largest tech startups and also giant-sized businesses like Samsung. We process millions of transactions monthly, growing 8% month on month for the last 3 years. We are trusted and backed by some of the largest VCs in the world, who invested in Facebook, Slack, Twitch and Grab, and are alumni of the prestigious YCombinator (S15).
Mission
Our disbursement team works on Xendit's biggest products: xenDisburse and xenBatch. These products support the region's biggest fintech and ecommerce businesses in the high-volume, time-sensitive payouts needed to run their business. The team is responsible for building mission-critical services, maintaining connections to banks and providers, and working through various issues associated with local infrastructure to ensure that payouts are executed successfully, correctly and promptly.
We're looking for a highly passionate software engineer to help us refine our disbursements product so that it is highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant. You'll be joining our technical team to build a complex distributed system used by regional customers. You'll get to work with our business and operations teams to understand and solve customer pain points and work with other engineers to build new features that will delight our customers.
Responsibilities * Understand customer needs and requirements, prioritise builds and add those into the technical roadmap
Account for the delivery of technical roadmap items on time
Mentor and up-skill engineers on a day-to-day basis
Advance engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Identify technical gaps in Disbursements products & build improvements to the technology stack by planning the technical roadmap
Drive infrastructure improvements that scale us from millions of monthly transactions to tens of millions of monthly transactions
Enhance our product reliability to maintain our performance threshold of 99% of disbursements processed under 1 minute & 99% of disbursements successfully sent to the recipient
Work closely with local banks and partners to scale up our product coverage
Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed
You may be a good fit if
2/3+ years of experience in developing, designing, and deploying large scale applications
Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Experience in any of the following: Node.js, TypeScript, Golang
Experience with relational and NoSQL database schema design and query optimization
Familiarity with unit, integration, and E2E test frameworks
Exposure to large-scale microservices architectural patterns, such as well-designed REST APIs, circuit breakers, high volume data pipelines
Familiarity with Scrum development methodologies
Ability to break down complex product requirements into well-groomed user stories
Thrive on being independent and have proven you can push towards a goal by yourself
Communicate well across teams
Bonus points if you have experience in local bank integrations
What we care about
Solve for the customer first: You build what customers want. You think about what is right for customers, not what is easiest for you
Demonstrate mastery of honey badgery: You make ambitious goals. Then execute...no matter what stands in the way. When knocked down, you get up
Take on challenges willingly and can be trusted to execute: You can be trusted to get things done right the first time quickly. You hit your deadlines
You're like us: You smile a lot, think work is fun and don't take yourself too seriously. You measure yourself against the best and believe feedback is the breakfast of champions. You follow the golden rule
You're remarkable: People naturally talk about how awesome you are. If we can't find someone who raves about you then it's unlikely we will too
About Xendit
Growing 8% month on month: We are one of the fastest growing companies in Southeast Asia and have done so for the last two years. We process close to 1b USD annually in payments by providing simple APIs for payments on a modern tech stack
YCombinator Batch S15: YC is the best incubator in the world, producing Airbnb and Dropbox; 120 companies out of 6,000 applications get in
Funded by investors behind Facebook, Slack, Kaokao, Path, Twitch, Grab, Tokopedia
Xendit

Manila City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time