About Thunes

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway for money movement around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes’ Network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, via more than 350 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.

Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house Smart Treasury Management Platform and Fortress Compliance Infrastructure, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivalled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments globally. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 12 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai.

For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/

🌍 About the Role

Our client's technology runs 24/7 across the globe, which means reliability, security, and massive scalability are core to everything the Engineering team builds.

🚀 Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain highly available services, mostly exposed through APIs
Take part in the design, implementation, and production release of new products for internal and external stakeholders
Deliver high-quality code: testable, secure, readable, scalable, and well documented
Understand, apply, and champion Agile practices (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc.)
Contribute to the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives
Ensure platform scalability and performance, ship new features, and continuously improve development processes

🎯 What We're Looking For

A highly autonomous, motivated, and curious profile with a genuine appetite for learning
Someone who fully "owns" their code: writing, testing, and deploying it, potentially several times a day
Comfortable working on technology used 24/7 worldwide, with all the reliability and security that implies
Strong communication skills to interact with technical teams across different countries

🛠️ Experience & Skills

7+ years of experience
Strong proficiency in Golang
Experience with event-driven architecture and message brokers: AWS SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ
Experience with relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
Proven experience designing and developing web solutions and APIs
Genuine interest in the FinTech industry and its innovations
Passionate about Agile practices (TDD, CI/CD, etc.)
Experience with high-transaction-volume platforms is desirable
Solid experience with Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS)
English level C1 required

🧩 Recruitment Process

Talent Acquisition interview (same person throughout the process)
Interview with the Lead + a Senior team member, discussion on experience and background, plus a take-home exercise
Exercise presentation, evaluating your reasoning and problem-solving approach

🎁 Package & Benefits

Salary: 85K
Bonus: 15% of fixed salary (50% company performance / 50% individual performance)
Insurance: Health coverage (family included) + Life insurance
Hybrid work: 4 days/week in office (Monday & Friday mandatory), flexible hours
Time off: 25 vacation days + 2 additional wellness days + 2 community/volunteering days
Learning & Development budget included

🌱 Why join our client?

A fast-growing company with strong internal mobility opportunities
Minimal legacy work, access to new projects rather than maintenance
Ambition to stay at the cutting edge of technology
Strong freedom of choice in the technologies used
A culture of learning and feedback, in a truly international environment: 40+ nationalities across 5 continents

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level
Industry
- Technology, Information and Media
- Financial Services
- Software Development
Employment Type

Full-time
Job Functions
- Information Technology
Skills
- Go (Programming Language)
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- MySQL
- Event Driven Programming
- Application Programming Interfaces (API)
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Apache Kafka

Backend Engineer | Senior-level