Staff Engineer

About DKatalis

DKatalis is a financial technology company with multiple offices in the APAC region. In our quest to build a better financial world, one of our key goals is to create an ecosystem-linked financial services business. DKatalis is built and backed by experienced and successful entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors in Singapore and Indonesia who have more than 30 years of financial domain experience and are from top-tier schools like Stanford, Cambridge London Business School, JNU with more than 30 years of building financial services/banking experience from Bank BTPN, Danamon, Citibank, McKinsey & Co, Northstar, Farallon Capital, and HSBC.

About the role

You will be part of a cross-functional agile engineering team (squad) responsible to build, deploy and run (support) one or more of our digital products, focusing on leading the team to deliver robust & resilient systems (front-end & back-end).You will work closely with Engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders, collaboratively ensuring quality gets built into the product, see your impact in many people's everyday lives, and lead the team while doing it.You will share your learnings within and beyond your team (squad) and mentor budding engineers for good engineering practices. You will foster a culture of providing feedback within the team, between teams, and to stakeholders. You will understand when to provide private feedback and when to provide public feedback. You will also help others to provide feedback.

What will you do

• Working with engineering and product owners to design, refine, and develop the product, from concept to implementation.
• Mentor and Lead the team in creating best-in-class products & experiences for our customers by designing, building, scaling, and evolving our platforms, services, and tools.
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively across cross-functional teams in a multi-cultural environment.
• Mentor and lead a team of highly talented and motivated engineers
• Ensure the performance, security, and responsiveness of applications built
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, automatization, and customer delight
• Drive innovation through experimentation by understanding the purpose of the experimentation and when to fail the experiment.
• You will be able to drive innovation from experimentation results.
• Be able to influence teams within his/her area and lead more senior team members.

What you need to have

• You have at least 10+ years of professional experience in a similar role developing highly scalable applications.
• Good written and spoken English
• Mastery of some abstract programming concepts and/or design patterns, and in some libraries or frameworks (OOP or FP) 
• Hands-on expertise in Java / Javascript or its derivatives (Typescript, NodeJS, Scala, Kotlin, Springboot, etc)
• Have hands on experience on either Flutter or React for front-end development framework.
• Experience with Lean/XP practices (TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration/Delivery for both Mobile & Back-end)
• Experience working in Agile Software development
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively across distributed teams in a multicultural environment.
• You’re excited about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs that glue them together
• You’re excited to mentor and groom the team collectively to become their better version of themselves, in realms of technicality and personal development. about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs that glue them together
• A passion for quality and best practices but with a pragmatism that understands the
  balance between perfection and delivering value in a timely manner.