Back End Developer/Engineer (Contract)
The Role & Responsibilities:
We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with strong fundamentals in TypeScript and hands-on experience building and maintaining distributed microservices in GCP. You’ll be designing APIs, building resilient services, optimising performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship impactful features.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services using Typescript in a microservices architecture, prioritising availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Versa’s platform
- Work with the back end engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale, maintainability, and performance.
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years backend engineering experience, preferably in distributed microservices architectures.
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals
- Strong TypeScript skills, with deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
- Experience deploying and operating services on GCP (or other cloud providers)
- Solid understanding of REST API design and best practices.
- Familiarity with message queues/event streaming (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with MySQL and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases)
- Experience with containerisation and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of unit/integration testing frameworks
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working with fintech or regulated industry is a plus
Job Description PDF: Versa JD – Back End Developer/Engineer
About Versa
Established in 2020, Versa is a digital wealth management app that simplifies saving and investing by creating good money habits. Versa is regulated by Securities Commission (SC) Malaysia and is focused on growing wealth by providing an experience that makes saving & investing seamless, fun and personal.