Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda
Ascenda provides the rewards infrastructure for leading financial services brands across the world.
Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers and fintechs who utilise our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.
With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.
Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint!
We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.
Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services!
About Ascenda Travel Delivery
The Travel Delivery team deals with building and maintaining our multi-tenant frontend services, and work with different teams in ensuring our day to day operability. The Travel Delivery team builds mainly in TypeScript (React & Angular) for our frontends, and also in Ruby (Ruby on Rails) for some of our backend services.
Within the team, you’ll find like-minded, and enthusiastic frontend-focused full stack engineers, excited about the technology we work with. Bonus mention - the team is also led by 2 Google Developer Experts!
As a Software Engineer with our team, you will:
- Develop user-facing features using modern-day frameworks (like Next.js and Angular), and also sometimes work with backend frameworks (like Rails).
- Implement best practices for performance optimization and accessibility.
- Help own & coordinate major delivery timelines for the projects you work on
- Solve big data & hi-traffic problems from the many suppliers we integrate across the ecosystem - problems of performance, tenancy, self-serve configurations
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and reusable code.
- Work closely with designers, product owners, and engineers from multiple teams to develop and design solid user experiences.
Requirements
What we're looking for:
- Good technical background in building trafficked large scale web applications on a modern backend stack
- Deep experience in frontend programming language variants - JavaScript and definitely TypeScript. 2 - 4 years experience in building frontends using React, Angular, Vue, etc.
- Some experience in backend programming languages such as Ruby, Golang, or any other relevant languages is a plus.
- Have experience participating in technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and resolve architectural problems. Have experience mentoring and coaching your junior engineers.
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the organization
- You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
- At least 2 - 4 years of development experience. Prior experience in the travel technology industry is a bonus.
- A strong alignment with Ascenda’s core values of growth mindset, hands-on ownership, supportive collaboration, and radical simplicity.
What matters at Ascenda:
We are passionate, we keep things simple, we focus on results, we work together & we innovate!
We have a rewarding working place that provides a:
- High growth environment & exponential career development
- Mobile & flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Travel perks & Employee rewards
Ascenda is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We thank you for your understanding that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
