Senior Backend Engineer

Get To Know Gimo

Are you an enthusiastic, young-at-heart individual who thrives in a fast-paced work environment with a dynamic team? Are you passionate about advancing your career in the fintech industry? If so, Gimo is the right place for you.

At Gimo, we are on a mission to make financial access easier for millions of workers across Vietnam and SEA. As a pioneer in Earned Wage Access (EWA), we’re changing the way employees get paid - giving them instant access to their earnings and reducing financial stress for those who need it most. But we’re not stopping there. By understanding the real challenges workers face, we are creating practical and responsible financial solutions that help improve their daily lives. Today, over 700,000 employees from 100+ businesses trust Gimo to take control of their finances, and this number is growing every day.

By joining us, you will be part of a team that is shaping a future where financial security is within reach for everyone. Let’s build something meaningful together.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Ownership: Take full ownership of various fintech products, collaborating with backend, frontend, mobile engineers, QA, and product managers to understand requirements and deliver robust, high-quality solutions. • Technical Design: Lead system architecture and database design to meet product scalability and performance demands.
• System Optimization: Continuously improve system performance, database efficiency, and application responsiveness for an optimal user experience.
• Best Practices: Adhere to and help evolve engineering best practices across coding standards, database architecture, security, and development tools to ensure technical excellence.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify, debug, and resolve technical issues in production to ensure system stability and reliability. Key

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related fields;
• 3+ year of experience with Java 11+ or other JVM languages, familiar with Spring Boot, Hibernate, Liquibase, build tools, logging & monitoring, troubleshooting, and system performance metrics;
• Proficiency in building distributed systems, experience with microservices architecture, sync/async communication via RESTful API/message broker (e.g., Kafka), cache (e.g., Redis);
• Proficient in database design & SQL;
• Able to work with Docker, CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes, GIT;
• Practical experience with AWS-managed services such as S3, EKS, RDS, KMS, SQS, SNS;
• Good communication skills.

Why Join Gimo?

• Competitive salary based on your experience
• PTI, social insurance & industry-standard package after probation
• Join a mission-led fintech expanding financial access for millions
• Fast-paced, empowering culture valuing autonomy & accountability
• Data-driven team embracing experimentation, collaboration & change

Get to know about us through:

• Our Website: https://gimo.vn/
• Gimo Careers: https://www.facebook.com/tuyendunggimo.vn
• Our LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimojsc/about/