Backend Technical Lead
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Backend Technical Lead who drives delivery through requirements analysis, defines solutions, and leads agile teams to build scalable, reliable APIs for high-volume transactions.
About this role
The Technical Leader will drive the efficient delivery of change through analysis, definition, and documentation of requirements whilst identifying potential solutions using agile delivery frameworks.
What you’ll be doing
- Work in small, highly collaborative agile teams. You and the team will have a clear mission and ownership of an important outcome that support Tyme and our customers.
- Align with stakeholders across Tyme on best practices around APIs, security, compliance, roadmap, and reliability.
- Help drive the technical direction of software features.
- Build highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable APIs to handle high-volume transactions.
- We aim for teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.
At Tyme, we optimize for quality, flow, and fast feedback, focusing on end-to-end ownership, continuous improvement, testing, monitoring, and experimentation. We’re looking for positive and passionate people who will put teamwork and collaboration above all else.
Requirements
You should have:
- A pragmatic mindset.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full development life cycle (coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operation, monitoring, etc.).
- With at least 8+ years of experience working in software development, we also welcome strong candidates having fewer years of experience.
- Preferably with 3+ years of experience in Java. We also welcome other general-purpose programming languages but are not limited to Java.
- Understanding of system design and tuning for high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Strong database and schema design for large-scale and finance systems.
- Great problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience with event-driven architecture or message queue system
- Professional experience working with cloud (either AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience in enterprise architecture.
- Working proficiency in English.
Qualifications:
- B.Sc or M.Sc in Computer Science or a related discipline with proven “hands-on” development experience
Benefits
You’ll love working with us if you are:
- Passionate about technology.
- Independent but also a good team player.
- Comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity.
- Focused on usability and speed.
- Keen on presenting your ideas to your peers and management.
At TYME, opportunities are here for the taking. If you want to be part of our purpose and live and lead through our values, we can offer exciting development opportunities through expanded lateral roles, stretch assignments, or people leadership.
Some of our benefits:
- Meal and parking allowances are covered by the company.
- **Full benefits and salary rank during probation **.
- Insurances such as Vietnamese labor law and ** premium health care** for you and your family.
- **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.
- **Internal Hackathons and company events **(team building, coffee run, etc.).
- 13th-month salary and ** performance bonus (pro-rated)**.
- 15-day annual leave + 3-day sick leave per year from the company.
- Work-life balance 40-hr per week from ** Monday to Friday.**
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