Software Engineer, Backend

Get To Know Our Company

GX Bank Berhad - the Grab-led Digital Bank - is 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 address the financial struggles of Malaysians and businesses.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the Bank’s range of services.
• Work with the 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 optimisation.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyse and fix large-scale systems.
• Learn full stack performance tuning and optimisation.
• 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, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang
• Understanding about containerization (Kubernetes and Dockerfile).
• Understanding of any of the cloud platforms, e.g. AWS.
• Good understanding of CI/CD concepts