Product Engineer, Back-end | Credit & Lending domain

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Join a dynamic team responsible for building a globally scalable lending platform, focusing on efficiency, flexibility, and the ability to support multiple geographies.

About TymeX

TymeX is the product, technology and data analytics hub of the Tyme Group. At TymeX, we are reimagining digital banking across emerging markets, across South Africa and Asia.

Our mission is to unlock human potential, and we aim to do so through the development of transformative financial services that empower individuals and small businesses. We believe in the power of technology to provide products that make a real difference in our customers' lives.

About The Team & Role Overview

The Lending Platform Team is responsible for building a globally scalable lending platform that manages the end-to-end lifecycle of shared/overlapped lending capabilities. This platform will serve as the foundational layer across all lending products, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and reusability of core services and workflows.

As a member of this team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that we achieve our mission to

  • Develop shared services that are flexible and configurable to support multiple lending products across different geographies.
  • Maximise users of the platform’s velocity of development while balancing stability
  • Ensuring cost efficiency and scalability for our continuous global expansion

Requirements

Technical & Architectural Skills

  • 5 years of experience in Java; Python is nice to have
  • Strong knowledge of AWS tech stack, such as ECS, Step Function, Lambda
  • Experience in architecting and maintaining scalable, distributed systems serving multiple products across countries.
  • Strong architectural principles, able to select the right technologies, tools, and approaches based on product and operational needs.
  • Expertise in SLA-based queues and processing, including:
    • Real-time event handling
    • Near real-time data pipelines
    • Batch processing for large-scale data operations
  • Skilled in workflow orchestration, capable of designing low-latency, high-volume processes with efficient routing and execution.
  • Experience in configuring and managing decisioning logic within complex workflows.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices for reliable and rapid deployment.

Data & Processing Skills

  • Background in ETL/ELT (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for high-quality data movement and integration.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks or equivalent data engineering platforms.
  • Familiarity with data pipelines, streaming, and data modeling for analytics and operational insights.

Character Traits

  • Curious and adaptable: Able to learn new technologies and adapt to evolving business requirements.
  • System thinker: Understands how platform-level decisions impact product scalability, reliability, maintainability and cost efficiency
  • Collaborative: Works effectively across teams and functions, with clear communication and ownership.
  • Delivery-focused: Balances architectural elegance with pragmatic implementation.

Good to Have (Preferred Skills)

  • Experience in training, deploying, and scaling ML models using MLOps frameworks and tools eg. AWS Sagemaker
  • Experience in Business Process Model and Notation tools and Decision Model and Notation Tools such as Flowable/ Camunda.
  • Understanding of risk and decisioning systems, credit modeling, or financial workflows
  • Experience in Lending Companies

Benefits

  • Performance bonus up to 2 months
  • 13th month salary pro-rata
  • 15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave
  • Meal and parking allowance are covered by the company.
  • Full benefits and salary rank during probation.
  • Insurances as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family without seniority compulsory
  • SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) - we focus on your development.
  • Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture.
  • Overseas travel opportunities for training and working related.
  • Internal Hackathons and company's events (team building, coffee run, blue card...)
  • Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri.
  • Free Meals & Snacks: Meal and parking allowance are covered by the company.
  • Health Insurance: Insurances as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family without seniority compulsory
  • Hackathons and company events: Internal Hackathons and company's events (team building, coffee run, blue card...)
  • Paid Time Off: 15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave

TymeX is Tyme Group's Technology and Product Development Hub - bringing together engineering and product people, sharing the global mission to become serial bank builders, and shaping the future of banking through technology.

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