Job Description

Hyderabad | India#### About us


Endowus is Asia's leading fee-only digital wealth platform. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission (SFC), Endowus is the first digital advisor in the region to span both private wealth (Cash) and public pension savings (CPF & SRS in Singapore), helping all investors grow their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low and fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.


Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones. Our mission is clear: help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.


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#### The people you will work with


The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience at Morgan Stanley, Amazon, JPMorgan, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Vanguard, ANT, Fidelity, McKinsey, Grab, ByteDance, and many others. See our leadership team here. We practise inclusion and treasure our diversity in background and experience. A diverse team is our biggest asset and we look for people who share our belief in Endowus' clear mission.?


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#### Investors, recognition, licensing


Founded in 2017, Endowus has raised a total of US$95 million in funding from investors such as UBS, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, Z Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and global leading venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Softbank Ventures Asia.


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Endowus' leadership and growth have been recognised by the industry and it has attained numerous awards including Singapore's Rising Star and Fintech Innovation in Asset Management, CEO of the Year, CIO of the Year (Asia Asset Management's Best of the Best Awards 2022), Singapore's Fintech Startup of the Year (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2022), LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2021, Forbes Asia 100 to Watch, WealthTech of the Year (Asia FinTech Awards 2022), Top 15 Singapore's Best Workplaces Award and Top 100 Asia's Best Workplaces Award 2022 (Great Place to Work).


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The Endowus Group comprises Endowus' licensed companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Hong Kong-based multi family office Carret Private. Endowus Group serves over a hundred thousand clients with content, advice and access. With group assets of over US$6 billion, it is one of the largest independent wealth managers in Asia. From a combination of 100% trailer fees rebates as direct cashback to clients, savings from the access to institutional share class and exclusive funds, Endowus has created more than US$40 million in savings per year for its clients.


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Endowus is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

About the team


We have recently embarked on one of the most significant evolutions of our wealth platform since our inception and are excited about this opportunity to build a brand new & fundamentally differentiated offering in the wealth management landscape.


We are looking for someone with significant experience in designing & delivering multiple high impact products, to join us as a hands-on technical manager & lead the team that will own this new product offering.



Reporting into the CTO, this is a dual-hat role involving full engineering ownership & accountability for one of our core product offerings as well as location leadership responsibilities for our rapidly growing Hyderabad office.

About this role; responsibilities & ownership

• Lead the system design, development, deployment, monitoring, and production support for your product. We operate as full-stack teams with a "build it & run it" ownership mindset.
• Involved in the details with ~25-30% of the time spent in hands-on development.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Marketing, CX, Operations and other stakeholders to ensure iterative delivery of customer value.
• Shape both the short term product roadmap & the long term product vision.
• Demonstrate a strong product sense and be empathetic to clients' experiences of using the product.
• Drive continuous improvements in the security, scalability, stability, speed, & cost-effectiveness of our systems.
• Attract & hire the best talent that is aligned with our mission.
• Guide every member of the team to grow in capability & achieve their best through regular & direct feedback, goal-setting & career conversations.
• Continuously retrospect, refine & improve how the team operates & excels.
• Create a strong team culture that drives excellence & fosters a sense of belonging.
• Influence & Impact the overall Endowus engineering culture by working across teams on cross-cutting architecture, process & people matters.

Requirements & qualifications

• Bachelors' or above in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in building scalable backend services in a product company.
• 2+ in a people & technical leadership role, directly facing business counterparts.
• Strong mastery of Scala or Java and at least one other programming language (such as JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.)
• Strong team and project leadership; Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership.
• Strong experience with agile processes, automated testing, CI/CD, production error/metrics monitoring, cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure (e.g. databases, message queues, containers, etc.)
• Comfortable with numbers and motivated by steep learning curves.
• While Scala expertise is not a prerequisite, willingness to quickly learn and master Scala is essential since all our core backend services are written in Scala.

Great to haves:

• Experience working in wealth management or investment domain.
• Exposure to CQRS / Event Sourcing patterns.
• Experience with Lagom/Akka frameworks for building microservices.

Our Tech Stack:

• Our backend services are written in Scala/Akka and the APIs are tested using Cucumber-Scala.
• We are heavy users of DDD, event sourcing, and CQRS.
• Our web app is in TypeScript/React and tested using Playwright. Our mobile app is in Dart/Flutter and tested using FlutterTest.
• We use Kafka for async communication between services. Cassandra is our transactional database & PostgreSQL is our read-side database. Our datalake is built using Spark/Athena.
• We are 100% cloud native and rely heavily on CI/CD & IaC.


You can also read more about our tech culture & development practices on our blog at tech.endowus.com

#### Benefits & perks

• Stock options in a fast growing company •
• Employee discount for investing at Endowus
• Flexible working hours and locations so you can live life and your best work - you are trusted to be responsible
• Competitive Staff Benefits; Annual leave, Life & Medical Insurance, Flexible Benefits Allowance •
• Office Productivity Equipment; Omnidesk Standing Desk & Ergonomic Chairs, Dell UltraSharp USB Type-C Monitor, high-end computer peripherals
• Choice of latest Apple or PC equipment

##### Note: • is only applicable to Full-Time employees
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How to apply
Everyone can be an Endowus client. If you are not yet a client, please create an account to understand our services and technology, and can see if our mission is something that aligns with your personal beliefs. We value your feedback on our product and will ask you for your insights throughout the interview process.


To apply, email to
Engineering.Careers@Endowus.com
with the following details:• Email subject: [Role you are applying for], [Your name]
• Attach your CV
• Content portfolio -- Original content creation (English and Traditional Chinese), translation (English to Traditional Chinese), any marketing/social media samples
• Cover letter in body of your email
• Requirement for credit bearing
• Notice period (if any)
• Current location
• Visa assistance for role location? (Y/N)

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