Software Engineer, Backend

Get To Know Our GX Bank Team

GX Bank Berhad - the Grab-led Digital Bank - is the the FIRST digital bank in Malaysia, approved by BNM to commence operations. We aim to leverage technology and innovation to serve the financial needs of the unserved and underserved individuals, and micro and small medium enterprises.

We are driven by our shared purpose and passion to bring positive transformation to the banking industry, starting with solutions that addresses the financial struggles of Malaysians and businesses.

Get To Know The Role

We are seeking talented & passionate engineers to join our team, you will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. It is very important that you take the initiative to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

The Day-to-day Activities

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
• Learn full stack performance tuning and optimization
• Debug and modify complex, production software
  
  

The Must Haves

• A Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields with strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang
  
  

Tech Stack

• Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.
• Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS and Android, written in Swift and RxJava.
• Our Command Centre front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript.
• We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality.