Our Ascend vision is to create life opportunities with innovative digital services. We are blessed to be operating in ASEAN, where we are able to help one of the world’s largest populations of underbanked, the people from some of the poorest provinces who are disregarded by traditional banks. So many lives are waiting for our help.

In 2017, we served over 30 million customers in 6 countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines), and processed over 4.5 billion USD. This makes us by far the largest fintech company in SE Asia, and growing quickly.

As a member of our Solutions Architect - Payment Platform, you will be incharge of designing and developing complex payment system for millions of Wallet customers and merchants. At Ascend, you will be part of an enthusiastic team who are directly responsible for improving the lives of millions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, maintain and communicate architecture blueprint for payment platform
• Identify and execute key strategy projects to improve services quality, sustainability, extensibility and cost saving
• Create and maintain documents and technical artifacts which comply to architecture, security and compliance standards
• Enforce standard documents, policies and provide guidance to development teams
• Work closely with product, security, technical operations and developers to create design for product development

Essential Skills & Prerequisites

• A positive, can-do attitude, who naturally expresses a high degree of empathy to others.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. We are more interested in passion for technology and what you are capable of, than we are academic qualification
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience defining, applying and enforcing architecture standards, guidelines and policies to the organization
• Good communication skills, abilities to discuss with technical and non-technical people, present ideas and motivate people
• Experience with a broad mix of technologies, including a strong subset of:
• Background knowledge on payment platform and technologies. This includes but not limited to payment processor, acquirer and issuer models
• Core Java 8-11, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NetflixOSS
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ELK)
• Messaging or streaming middleware such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Experience with Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies such as Mesos and Kubernetes
• Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems.

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