gini (HK) - Software Engineer - HK or Remote (Clojure / ClojureScript)

Hong Kong

Software Engineer - HK or Remote (Clojure / ClojureScript)

About Us

gini is an award-winning fintech company (winning 2 of 4 awards at the Citi Fintech Challenge) that simplifies everyone's financial lives. gini is the first app that links every product a user carries in their wallet in one place, conveniently connecting a person's credit cards, bank accounts, loyalty cards, and discount vouchers into one place.

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Who we're looking for

gini is looking for a Software Engineer to join our amazing tech team!

What you will be doing

Work on a Greenfield project, collaborating closely with the CTO, Senior Engineers and Product Designer to build the next version of our product.
Work in a results-driven team and produce quality by leading or contributing heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business.
Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
Use data to drive decisions quickly, make mistakes and learn from them, iterate and ship.
Be part of the initial core team in a fast growing company and market, fast-tracking your experience.
Be part of hiring and growing the team and deeply review code.
Influence the engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Who you are

You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
You’ve been building web applications professionally for years and have experience working with AWS or other cloud providers.
You have experience and enjoy working with functional languages.
You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards extensibility and maintainability.
You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
You always consider privacy and security of your users and the programs they use and this reflects on your code and reviews.
You're able to communicate effectively in writing within a distributed team.
You're based within 8 hours time difference from Hong Kong (GMT +8).

Bonus points for

Experience with Clojure and ClojureScript in production (Clojure is not a must-have but you need to be eager to learn it as most of our stack is in Clojure).
Experience building and running Datomic in production.
Experience in Timeseries forecasting.
You can lead technical architecture discussions and help drive
technical decisions within your team

What we offer

Competitive salary plus the opportunity for equity
Health insurance, including dental (if remote the value in HK will be added to your salary)
Flexible working hours - we don't care when you're at your workstation, we care about results.
Beautiful workspace in Hong Kong with free drinks and snacks and Friday happy hours with industry guests.
Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers