Kotlin Developer (API)
In today's world, traditional banking practices and conventional lenders have failed to keep pace with innovation. People deserve better financial services. At Salmon, we recognized this gap and decided to shake things up.
Led by a dynamic team of financial professionals and entrepreneurs, and backed by world-class investors, Salmon is on a mission to revolutionize financial services. We’ve built a business capable of raising over $60MM from the ADQ (the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi), World Bank Group, and other investors — despite a challenging market. Through innovative technology, intuitive product design, robust security measures, advanced data analytics, and unwavering dedication to customer saisfaction, we're redefining what it means to bank in the modern era.
We are building Salmon to become a financial technology business that works impeccably 24x365, providing easy access to finance for millions of Filipinos. We aim to foster financial inclusivity and empowerment with our customers.
We thrive on challenges and opportunities for growth. Our team is constantly seeking individuals with sharp analytical minds and a knack for innovation. If you're someone who loves tackling complex problems and isn't afraid to voice your ideas, then Salmon is the perfect place for you.
Over the past year we have created and launched financial products that already work and bring profit. We, like any startup, started with $16 million in seed investment and raised $20 million in debt financing, we are trusted by Disrupt AD fund from UAE, Argentem Creek Partners, as well as investors from Europe and Philippines.
Our plans are to become a unicorn and leading fintech in Southeast Asia in 3-5 years, we have a team of professionals and all the necessary resources.
If you have a passion for fintech, can find creative solutions and want to contribute to the development of successful products, this challenge is definitely for you!
We have many challenges that our team has to solve quickly and efficiently. It gives a huge room for development.There are many processes to create or improve, so we are looking for someone with a systems and analytical mindset, who can offer and argue their ideas.
- Collaborate with a team to develop banking APIs for mobile applications and various other services.
- Utilize modern technologies such as Ktor, jooq, coroutines, and Arrow to build robust and scalable solutions.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of public APIs, SDKs, and frameworks to streamline internal processes.
- Integrate with other platforms and services in a scalable manner.
- Assist in building and scaling banking and partner platforms.
- At least 3 years of software development experience in the JVM environment, familiarity with Kotlin and concurrent programming understanding is an advantage (any approach is ok: coroutines, goroutines, futures, actors, async-await, green-threads, etc.)
- Striving for quality architecture. Understanding of basic techniques (event-driven, domain-driven, etc.) and fundamental knowledges: OOP, SOLID, ACID and other.
- Understanding of how distributed systems works (cap, eventual consistency and so on)
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration, preferably Docker and Kubernetes in an AWS environment.
- Willingness to embrace continuous learning and knowledge-sharing within the team
- Modern banking services for millions of Filipinos
- Cutting-edge solutions based on the best world practices and AI implementation
- Licensed neobank aiming to be a unicorn and leading fintech in the fast-growing region of Southeast Asia
- A business capable of raising over $60MM from the ADQ (the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi), World Bank Group and other investors despite the challenging market
- An environment that allows you to launch new products in 3-4 months
- A basis for expanding into new markets all over the world
- Passionate international team spanning the globe
- Rapid professional growth. Merit (and merit only) rules the day
- Reward for performance and long-term success of Salmon
- Fast track to grow internationally
- New office in Manila, Philippines
- Relocation support for eligible candidates
- Remote and hybrid options
- Medical insurance, health and wellness benefits
- Program of events and activities both online and in person
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