LG Electronics Development Vietnam (LGEDV) 4.5 ★

Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda

Ascenda provides the rewards infrastructure for leading financial services brands across the world.

Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers and fintechs who utilise our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.

With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.

Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint!

We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.

Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services!

About Checkout Team

We orchestrate end-to-end, white-labelled loyalty solutions, managing complex data flows across multiple systems. We tackle challenges such as product availability for banks, payment options for gift cards, points transfer partners, and redemption notifications. Our focus is on service orchestration, ensuring reliability and scalability while balancing flexible data interfaces with standardised pipelines to handle varying traffic and usability.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Checkout team, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable solutions, manage the integration of complex systems, and drive improvements in service reliability.

You'll tackle critical challenges related to data flow and system orchestration, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless, high-quality delivery of our loyalty solutions. Your expertise will be crucial in enhancing our data interfaces and maintaining a robust, standardised pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of end-to-end features for the platform for the team.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability
• Design and implement highly efficient APIs and their underlying infrastructure, showcasing excellence in software design and maintaining close collaboration with the design team to create elegant, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces.
• Advocate for writing comprehensive unit tests to improve code reliability and maintainability, fostering a testing culture within the development process
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with other teams, Project, Partnerships etc to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, to the ease of integration, and the expressiveness of our product APIs
• Serve as a role model for high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and Ops processes you will encounter
• Mentor your fellow engineers with the technical skills and domain exposure needed to become the next generation of subject matter experts at Ascenda
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Good technical background in building large scale web applications on a modern frontend and backend stack
• A minimum of 3 years of development experience, with a preference for candidates with prior experience in the fintech/loyalty domain
• Good proficiency in utilising Ruby on Rails for the creation of highly scalable APIs. Alternatively, a robust inclination and eagerness to rapidly acquire expertise in Ruby.
• Participation in technical roadmaps and Request for Comments (RFCs) to communicate technical strategy and address architectural challenges
• Excellent collaboration skills, comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and adept at interacting not only with engineering but also with product, design, and business teams
• Passionate about mentoring and leading engineers, providing guidance and coaching for high performance
• Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, demonstrating a keen intuition for solutions that are both enduring and scalable
• Ideal candidate possesses a product-oriented mindset, actively cultivating strong relationships with both the product and design teams to collaboratively develop features. Demonstrates the qualities of a true product engineer.
  
  

What Matters At Ascenda

We are passionate, we keep things simple, we focus on results, we work together & we innovate!

We Have a Rewarding Working Place That Provides a

• High growth environment & exponential career development
• Mobile & flexible work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Travel perks & Employee rewards
  
  

Ascenda is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We thank you for your understanding that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.