We are Neat. We've built Hong Kong's first online current account for individuals, startups and SMEs. Our goal is to make bank branches redundant and provide a joyful customer experience.
We’re now looking for a Backend Engineer to help us build a modern financial technology app. You will need to be able to prioritize what’s important, understand needs and should not be shy about voicing your opinions as we chart our course.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain and improve APIs, services, and systems
- Debug production issues across services and stacks
- Work with people across the company to build new features
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Connect to external APIs – payment processors, banks, and other technology platforms
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision
- Propose architectural decisions, and take part in designs, design review and code reviews and implementation
- Build robust, lasting, and scalable products
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Optimization of the application for speed and scalability
Our current technology stack
- Our backend systems are mostly written in Ruby (Sinatra), with some services written in Java and Python/Node (serverless apps)
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- Postgres/Redis for data storage
What we're looking for:
- Someone who gets excited by tough technical challenges
- Someone who loves to learn, and is passionate about helping others
- Experience with front-end apps and databases
- Someone who can collaborate and work well with others
- Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
- 3+ years of software engineering experience preferred
- A passion for FinTech and creativity!