Company
Seasonalife is a well-funded insurance technology startup based in Hong Kong. We are looking to significantly grow our young team, and this is an exciting time to join a team that is gaining significant traction in the market.
We recently started a project to transform the way ordinary Hong Kong citizens manage their personal finances. We are building a web-application platform that serves both large financial institutions and regular folks looking to simplify the insurance experience. Our mission carries with it a strong sense of purpose, and we are seeking like-minded individuals to help craft a beautiful, reliable platform and re-think how personal finances can be presented.
What you'll do
This is a start-up environment so bear in mind we expect you and your responsibilities to grow and evolve:
- Be a technical leader within your team and within Seasonalife in general;
- Take an active role in growing the team;
- Manage our web-applications in a cloud-based PaaS Platform (experience with any of Microsoft Azure/ Heroku/ AWS Elastic Beanstalk preferred);
- Architect, implement, and maintenance of our cloud-based environments;
- Collaborate with experts from actuarial, financial and IT disciplines to integrate our back-end infrastructure with financial models;
- Handle application release management, infrastructure provisioning and deployment;
- Monitor and Report on the Production platform and own the Escalation process;
- Analyze log files and identify root causes for Infrastructure or Application problems;
- Pro-actively identify improvements;
- Advise teams on cloud-oriented security architecture and best-practices;
- Development of tools to better maintain and automate all of the above, with the aim of bringing them under a uniform framework;
- Create and promote internal coding standards and development practices
Who you are
- 2+ years of relevant work experience preferred;
- You have experience with Cloud environment administration (Microsoft Azure/ Heroku/ AWS Elastic Beanstalk preferred);
- You have experience in developing web-applications;
- You have experience in driving technical projects from beginning to end;
- You care about quality, and you know what it means to ship high quality code;
- Solid experience and knowlege with back-end platform frameworks and programming languages;
- Development experience with Python and/or other scripting languages;
- Development experience with web application frameworks;
- An understanding of modern deployment tools like Git, Docker, etc.;
- An understanding of how networks and common networking protocols work;
- The communication skills necessary to help application owners and developers understand and architect for secure cloud-deployed applications;
- A self-starter who is comfortable working in ambiguity within a fast-paced and growing fintech start-up environment;
- Either a Bachelors or Diploma in Computer Science or demonstrable skill and experience in the relevant subjects
Working with Us
We never plateau and suffice with our current performance: we constantly seek to develop ourselves and our skills. We do not expect you to have much knowledge of personal finance, life insurance or actuarial science - we will teach you, but you must be prepared to go through a steep learning curve. We offer a very competitive salary with tremendous career upside for individuals looking to be a part of this extraordinary journey.
If you are interested in joining us, please submit your resume to fred.ngan@coherent.com.hk. Application is on a rolling basis.