Staff Software Engineer, Orchestration

**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 millions of customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprintWe 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 Core Orchestration Engineering in Ascenda**

We are building the next generation of fintech services for our clients. Our new Staff Engineer (Core Orchestration) will have a unique opportunity to lead the design and implementation of this critical system, leveraging data, distributed systems, event driven architecture to build advanced financial services, reduce risk and enhance our capabilities.

This year some of the key projects you'll be aiding us includes
- Highly scalable customer enrollments and activities
- Reliable workflow orchestration (at high throughput) for key actions like payment checkouts, fraud processing

These will form the backbone of enabling high scalability, quick performance and easy operations for our core services within Ascenda. They'll lend us the resilience to scale the sales of Ascenda to our many clients globally

Attracting world-class architectural talent is crucial to our long-term success. We are also keen to contribute to the broader external engineering community in the form of blogs, talks, and open source tools.

**About the Role**

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the selection and rollout of patterns and frameworks within your feature team. You will be expected to demonstrate leadership through the quality of your architectural work. In conjunction with your team's Engineering Lead, you will ensure that the way we build our solutions is of exceptional technical quality.

Our engineering team takes ownership of the technical construction of key systems. If you are passionate about big engineering problems and want to shape how we scale this across our entire ecosystem then this role is a great fit for you

You will be responsible for the technical roadmap, architecture, and quality of our services & rollout across multiple loyalty services.

**Responsibilities**:

- Scope & lead large technical projects and architecture that’ve massive impact in Ascenda & our numerous clients
- Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability.
- Design and implement elegant APIs and their underlying infrastructure. Serve as a role model for software design and scalable systems architecture across Ascenda
- Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with other Engineering teams, Technical Project Management etc to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, to the ease of integration, and the expressiveness of our Data strategy & Events architecture
- Serve as a role model for high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
- You're a passionate problem solver: Weighing up pros and cons of new tech solutions before implementing them with your team.
- Teach and mentor ICs and managers to become the next generation of experts at Ascenda

**What we're looking for**:

- Strong technical background, with prior experience in similar roles such as Tech Lead, Engineering Manager or Staff level engineering roles.
- Experience building large-scale, high throughput distributed systems on the Cloud. Hands on experience with designing, building and operating event-driven architectures
- Fluent with our main backend programming language - Ruby, or, having a strong aptitude and desire to pick up and be proficient in Ruby and/ or Typescript
- Have experience in developing technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and vision
- You are a thought leader
- Who enjoys formally coaching other team members
- Passionate about mentoring and/or leading a group of engineers, guiding and coaching them for high performance
- Operational tooling experience such as Grafana, StatsD, Datadog, Prometheus. If this sounds like something you would be keen to hear more about, hit apply.
- You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good int