Engineering

Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Platform

Jakarta, Jakarta   |   Full Time

We are looking for Staff Software Engineers who can lead the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for product engineering teams.  Within the engineering team at Flip, you will be working with passionate engineers focused on delivering great product features, services, and platform components at a healthy pace and with high standards of quality. You will work on rapidly evolving backend systems as well as deal with interesting engineering problems such as developing new services and APIs for upcoming features as well as handling scale while managing data consistency.


About Flip 

Rafi, Luqman, and Anjar, who were college friends in Universitas Indonesia, started Flip as a project in 2015 to transfer payments to each other at a fraction of what banks would charge them. They are pioneers in the Indonesian market, with their technology now helping millions of Indonesians, both individuals and businesses, carry out bank-to-bank money transfers through a reliable and seamless app.

After seven years of operations, Flip has helped Indonesians transfer money worth several trillions of rupiah and has received double-digit funding from respectable investors such as Sequoia India, Insight Partner, and Insignia. Flip’s ultimate mission is to give Indonesians access to one of the most progressive and fairest financial services in the world.

At Flip, we always strive to provide the fairest place for you to work, learn, and grow with talented and fun people in various opportunities to advance your career and get fair rewards. We believe that we have to treat employees, customers, and all stakeholders fairly and respectfully. Fair treatment for employees means we establish clear goals, facilitate our employees to achieve them, and value their contribution to the company with equitable benefits.



What you'll do

  • Lead the technical vision and direction for engineering within individual teams.
  • Work closely with the product, design, operations, and engineering teams across the squads to ship world-class products and features.
  • Work with mobile and web, SRE, and QA engineers to collaborate on end-to-end feature development and improvements.
  • Design and develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems. Define and execute the long-term strategy around backend platforms and data stores within individual teams.
  • Drive best practices around writing code, engineering processes, and system design with a focus on engineering excellence. Inspire engineers by following the right standards in software development and leading by example.
  • Provide mentorship to software engineers in the team including senior backend engineers.
  • Partner with the product management team to execute the feature roadmap. Ensure appropriate estimations around effort and capacity for the entire team.
  • Conduct and participate in design discussions for solutions across teams. Also, share knowledge to engineers by writing articles, conducting sharing sessions.
  • Work with the engineering leadership to execute the engineering improvements roadmap.
  • Provide technical guidance and take ownership of debugging production issues across services.

What you'll need

  • Strong software engineering foundation, including problem-solving, coding, and execution.
  • Strong programming skills in mainstream languages like Go, PHP, Java, Python, etc. Ability to write well-designed, testable, and maintainable code.
  • Ability to estimate and execute releases with a high degree of predictability.
  • Ability to develop the technical roadmap at the Epic/project level as well as navigating unknown problem areas and breaking them down for the team.
  • Experience working in an agile environment and in teams practicing DevOps.
  • Experience in scaling a system that handles high traffic/large data sets/high concurrency.
  • Strong communication skills. Proactive in driving various initiatives and processes for the team as well as communicating with various stakeholders.
  • Previous experience working in a technical lead role will be an added bonus.
  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer working on backend systems and 2+ years of experience with product engineering for consumer-scale systems.

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