Company: Salmon
Location: Manila, Philippines
Remote work is possible, preferred time zones GMT+5 to GMT+10
- Hi, we’re Salmon 🚀
- Your future tasks:
- Design and develop backend services with a focus on reliability and maintainability
- Own the full delivery lifecycle
- Contribute to engineering culture
- What we expect from candidate:
- Our Stack
- Nice to Have
- Why would it be cool to work with us?
- What we create
- What we offer
- If you wanna join our team - feel free to apply! 👇
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Hi, we’re Salmon 🚀
Your future tasks:
Design and develop backend services with a focus on reliability and maintainability
- define service architecture and data flows
- choose communication patterns (sync/async, event-driven)
- write focused unit and integration tests
- instrument services with metrics, logs, and alerts
Own the full delivery lifecycle
- package, deploy, and operate services in AWS or Kubernetes (EKS)
- develop and maintain internal libraries and tooling used across teams
- standardize patterns for repeatable tasks (observability, config, error handling)
Contribute to engineering culture
- propose improvements, challenge decisions, bring clarity to ambiguous problems
- help us build a maintainable, well-designed platform for ML-driven fintech services
What we expect from candidate:
- 3+ years of experience as a Python Developer
- Strong, real-world experience shipping and running backend or ML-driven services end-to-end
- Experience building microservices (FastAPI or similar)
- Strong Python fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Our Stack
- AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps
- Python 3.10+
- Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL
- Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring
Nice to Have
- AWS and Terraform experience
- Understanding of concurrency models in Python (asyncio, multiprocessing, threading)
- Experience in one or more of:
- software architecture (event-driven, DDD)
- ML / NLP / CV productionization
- graph databases
- fintech, risk, antifraud or scoring systems
Why would it be cool to work with us?
What we create
- Modern banking services for millions of Filipinos
- Cutting-edge solutions based on the best world practices and AI implementation
- Licensed neobank aiming to be a unicorn and leading fintech in the fast-growing region of Southeast Asia
- A business capable of raising over $200MM from the ADQ (the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi), World Bank Group and other investors despite the challenging market
- An environment that allows you to launch new products in 3-4 months
- A basis for expanding into new markets all over the world
What we offer
- Passionate international team spanning the globe
- Rapid professional growth. Merit (and merit only) rules the day
- Reward for performance and long-term success of Salmon
- Fast track to grow internationally
- New office in Manila, Philippines
- Relocation support for eligible candidates
- Remote and hybrid options
- Medical insurance, health and wellness benefits
- Program of events and activities both online and in person