Senior Software Engineer - Platform

About us

Endowus is Asia's leading fee-only wealth platform. Headquartered in Singapore, we are the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS), helping everyone grow all their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low & fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.

Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones.

Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.

The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience from various banks and tech companies. We treasure our diversity in background and experience, and we look for people who share our beliefs in our mission.

About the team

The Platform team at Endowus is entrusted with the design, development, and operations of an extensive suite of platform services and tools that facilitate a robust, secure, and efficient software delivery lifecycle.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Platform team at Endowus, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure and foundational technologies that empower our entire engineering organisation. This is a dynamic role that calls for a blend of expertise in software engineering, systems architecture, and a deep understanding of DevOps principles. A deep passion for improving organisational software development velocity and quality will be a key determinant of success in this role.

These blog posts provide a flavour of the kinds of problems we solve in this team:

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure automation that supports the engineering team's needs, improving development, testing, and deployment processes.

Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and provide platform capabilities that enable them to deliver high-quality features swiftly and safely.

Participate in the ongoing effort to refine and improve our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring optimal performance, reliability & auditability.

Design and implement robust authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) mechanisms, ensuring the security and integrity of our systems and data.

Engage in the full software development lifecycle, from planning and design to implementation and maintenance, with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code (IaC).

Contribute to the creation and enhancement of platform tooling, including dynamic environments, test automation platform, and other productivity-enhancing capabilities.

Requirements & qualifications

Bachelors' or above in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

At least 3 years of experience working as a backend or full-stack software engineer.

Strong grasp of Spring Boot via Kotlin or Java, having used it extensively for developing backend services.

Experience in at at least one database technology (SQL, Mongodb, Cassandra, etc.)

Experience with agile processes, automated testing, CI/CD, and production error/metrics monitoring.

Self-driven, has a strong sense of ownership and is able to work and learn independently.

Being a team player is key. We are a small but growing team, and we believe in building an environment that fosters a sense of belonging for all of our employees.

Nice to haves

Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters

Experience with a UI framework (NextJs, Reactjs, etc.)

Experience in web development and automation using Python

Experience using declarative infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).

Experience setting up end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying artifacts.

Experience developing distributed systems or building a larger application from scratch.

Experience working in a B2C domain.

Basic knowledge of finance and trading.

Solid understanding of infrastructure (e.g. databases, message queues, Docker).

Our Investors, recognition, licensing

Founded in 2017, Endowus has raised a total of US$50 million in funding from investors such as UBS, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, Z Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and global leading venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

Endowus' leadership and growth have been recognised by the industry and it has attained numerous awards including, Singapore's Best Digital Wealth Management (Asia Asset Management's Best of the Best Awards 2024), Singapore's Best Digital Upgrade for enhancements made on the Endowus app (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2024), Singapore's Best Digital Wealth Management Experience (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2023), and Best WealthTech Solution 2023 (Asian Private Banker 9th Technology Awards). Endowus is also among the firms named in the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers 2023, LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2023 and Forbes' '100 to Watch' list for 2022.

The Endowus Group comprises Endowus' licensed companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Hong Kong-based Carret Private. Endowus Group serves tens of thousands of clients with assets over US$4 billion and is one of the largest independent wealth managers in Asia. From a combination of trailer fees rebates as cashback, savings from the access to institutional share class funds, and savings from access to funds where Endowus is an exclusive distributor, Endowus has created more than US$15 million in savings for its clients.

Full time