About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Java Software Development Engineer to join our Swift On-Premises tribe. Our tribe develops On-Premises applications that connects businesses to financial networks.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, you will be working as a member of a dynamic team that is responsible for end-to-end delivery - from customer engagement to operations.

As a driving force of technological change, the On-Premises tribe operates in a truly agile way. You will have a unique opportunity to expand your reach in terms of knowledge and network, and to build your expertise through Swift's global platform.

About the role

You would be working as a Lead Engineer and a Technical Lead for the AU-NPP Customer Footprint teams. These teams handle the critical customer-edge components of the New Payments Platform (NPP - which is an industry-wide payments platform for Australia).
Together with the teams, you would work closely with the Product Owner, the Business Analyst, and the other business stakeholders to continuously deliver new features and maintain the products.
As a Technical Lead, given business requirements you'd also be expected to

• Help refine the requirements to make them more actionable: Through your expert skills and experience, help the team navigate ambiguity and build order out of chaos.
• Design and devise solutions, provide estimations for them.
• Lead a team of developers and QAs to deliver the said solutions within reasonable timeframe.

 

What to expect?

• To work within an agile development team and be accountable for analyzing business requirements and provide sound technical solution.
• To design, develop, test, install and support programs/systems in line with agreed requirements. Quality is part of everything you do.
• You will design and implement integration and automated tests.
• To develop user documentation, prepare and give presentations to other team members, management and customers.
• You will provide timing/scheduling estimates to the Product Owner and propose corrective actions to timelines when vital.
• You will work collaboratively with other team members and provide mentorship to more junior squad members.
• You will develop and maintain strong working relationships with solutions delivery peers and other delivery partners.

 

What will make you successful?

• University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar fields.
• Minimum eight, preferable twelve or more years of software development experience preferably in a multinational/multicultural environment.
• Minimum two years of experience in a Technical Team Lead or a similar role.
• Solid programming/coding experience with Java 8 (or higher), Spring Framework, Spring Boot.
• Practical experience of Linux OS (RedHat Enterprise Linux).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD principles and related tools (e.g. Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Jira etc. or other similar tools) and techniques.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment that requires a high degree of adaptability.
• Ability to provide technical mentorship to other junior and senior engineers.
• Ability to establish and instill strong engineering practices.
• Ability to collaborate with teams operating in other time-zones (APAC, Europe, and US).
• Excellent written and verbal (English) communications, strong social skills and customer centric demeanor.
• Excellent problem solving skills in understanding very complex situations and dependencies.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Eagerness to learn and to stay up to date with the latest technologies and disseminating these learnings to others.

 

Things that could improve your chances further

• Knowledge of, or some prior experience with C++.
• Knowledge of, or prior experience with containerization technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift) and the surrounding concepts, technologies, and techniques.
• Knowledge of, or experience with one or more of the major public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), and overall knowledge of cloud and surrounding concepts, technologies, and techniques.
• Knowledge of, or experience with Apache Kafka.
• Knowledge of, or experience with Swift Messaging standards/formats, especially ISO20022.

              

For more info on the role, you may reach out to:
 

              

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

              

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, or veteran/military status.