Graduate Engineer, Platform Engineering

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 utilize 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 over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are, you’ll recognize our footprint! We believe nothing should stand in the way of companies striving to drive growth via compelling and effortless reward 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 Platform Engineering Platform Engineering experiments, design, builds & operates the core data & workflows layer that connects Ascenda’s myriad product systems and sub-services together. Platform Engineering simplifies the operational efficiency of building applications within the Ascenda ecosystem through the roll out of shared services, tooling, training & operational support to the various teams and applications within Ascenda. Platform Engineering is also responsible for the experiments and work to add flexibility, scalability & simplicity to test and roll out new capabilities within our Engineering stack to enable the capture of other product verticals and market segments for services we sell. Examples include: Orchestrating improvements to multi-tenant onboarding and change configuration management across applications & regional deployments Building new batch data processing capabilities to capture the more traditional file/ batch data integration models that financial institutions need Rolling out the use of event-driven processing to manage fan-out and scaling problems for inter-service load problems Improving our ability to proactively detect session fraud & compromised user accounts Our engineers work directly with our other engineering teams to onboard them onto our platform systems, reviewing and recommending design and architectural decisions, and guiding our engineering teams on how to implement the tooling provided by the larger Platform organization required to ensure systems can scale and react to changing conditions, with continuous improvement loops. Who we are looking for: Love building things. Passionate and get energised about using cutting-edge technology to build the next generation of amazing digital products. A team player, willing to help other developers, share knowledge and care deeply about the product you build. Enjoy meritocracy. Be judged by what you deliver and not what you speak. Have some experience in at least one backend language (Ruby preferred, but not obligatory). Have some experience in building frontends, either in vanilla JS or using frameworks is a bonus. Possess good communication skills, are not afraid of suggesting changes and improvements. A fast learner, always curious to learn new languages and libraries. Minimum Degree Holder (Fresh Graduates). #J-18808-Ljbffr