Senior Backend Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

About The Job

StashAway is Asia’s leading digital wealth manager. We’re on a mission to empower people to build long-term wealth, and we’re live across five countries. Our product & engineering teams are the engine that drives that mission, with a relentless focus on intuitive customer experience and solving the hard technical problems that come along the way.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Trading Squad , you’ll have a foundational impact on the mission-critical trading platform that manages our clients’ wealth. This is a modern distributed system that processes many millions of dollars in daily transactions, and must be fault-tolerant and scalable enough to handle StashAway’s rapid pace of growth. We leverage workflows, message queues, and databases to ensure our business logic is processed reliably and efficiently.

Check out the StashAway Engineering blog to learn more about the tech we use, challenges we face, and solutions we deliver!

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship core features on our trading platform, translating product priorities into high-impact customer experience and back-office functionality
• Ship well-tested, maintainable solutions that can run high workloads in a rapidly-scaling environment, using Kotlin, Micronaut, Typescript, Temporal, Kafka and other related technologies
• Take end-to-end ownership of critical systems, ensuring their reliability and performance in production. This includes a strong focus on continuous deployment, observability, and incident response and resolution
• Raise the team’s technical bar by mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices
• Leverage technological step changes like GenAI to improve our products, development process, and operations
• Collaborate in an agile environment with your team, product managers, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver value.

What You’ll Bring

Projects You Might Work On

You'll tackle a diverse range of high-impact challenges, including :

Accountability Of The Role

As a software engineer at StashAway, you are accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. You own :

Benefits

Employee financial and physical well-being

Flexible work arrangements and policies

Learning and development opportunities

Team bonding budget and initiatives

Tell employers what skills you have

Process Automation

Kotlin

TypeScript

System Integration

JavaScript

Information Technology

System Design

Distributed Systems

Python

Engineering Design

Systems Design

Java

Debugging

API

Databases

Software Development

Technical Design