Software Engineer (Python)

About Thunes

Thunes is a global, fast-growing, and innovative Fintech scale-up that uses technology to disrupt and transform the existing financial system.

We have a strong Mission: to create a better global payments network, and a great Purpose: to connect the world to economic opportunities and address systemic inequality when it comes to financial services.

We are proud to power payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses and work with some of the amazing global brands - from Gig Economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia's super-app Grab, to global Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly.

Our Products help to drastically simplify the Payment integration experience for our customers: with a single, simple connection, businesses and consumers can send payments to – and get paid in – every corner of the world. Instantly.

Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, New York, Dubai, and Nairobi.

Position

Reporting to the Software Engineering Lead, you will be part of the engineering team who is responsible for developing our core business products and getting them to production in the most efficient and fastest way possible. You will be involved in architecture, tools and platforms to solve business needs and tools around internal processes automation to improve quality and performance of internal clients.

As part of the Engineering team, based in Europe, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.

Key responsibilities

• Work on highly available services, exposed mainly by APIs, web app development
• Participate in the design, implementation and shipping of new products to internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, scalable and documented software
• Understand, apply and champion the principles of the agile methodology (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc..)
• Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives

Your qualification

• Software engineers that are motivated, curious and have an appetite for learning
• Proficient in Python
• Web stack development
• Passionate about Agile Methodology and practices (TDD, CI, CD, etc..)
• Experience designing and developing web and API solutions
• Interest in the Fintech Industry and market innovations
• Nice to have: a knowledge of Golang and/or Perl
• Nice to have: desire to learn Golang