Position: Java Software Developer
Company: Jeff
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

❗ There is more than a billion people in Asia that do not have access to mainstream financial services!
At the same time, most of them have an incredible amount of valuable digital footprint in their mobile devices, online presence, social media, everyday apps & many other sources.

Enter Jeff, loan broker for the unbanked. We are on the way to build a new generation Credit Score based on the alternative data & become the Credit Karma of South-East Asia’s emerging economies.

🚀 Jeff’s journey started in 2020. Fast forward to end-2021, where over 1 million people in Vietnam and Philippines have used the opportunity to obtain funding via Jeff.
We are as determined as ever to sustain the rapid growth & bring Jeff to new markets, as well as introduce data and B2B products in the coming year.
To accelerate our efforts of boosting financial inclusion and accelerate the number of items we bring from backlog to development, to production, we are looking for a Software Developer.

**And the Java Software Developer has an important role to play in this story!
Sooo, you are a “startup”?**
✅ Yes, our employees can get stock options (that are already worth something).
✅ Yes, we are generating a profit and have acquired investments from reputable investors.
✅ Yes, we have proven that our business is sustainable so we will be here for some time.
Ready to read further?
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**THE Team**
We are still a very small tech team that consists of three backend developers and two frontend developers. Besides the development team, there is a data science team with five engineers and approximately 15 other highly-skilled non-technical team members.
Open communication and no “political office games” is highly valued here.
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**Our stack**
The backend stack is modern yet simple. Every decision made is based on “how easy it will be to find & onboard a new team member?”
Java & Spring containers running on AWS with GraphQL endpoints exposed to the frontend backed by a Postgres database.
Our code is “mostly” covered by tests — unit, integration & acceptance ones. “Mostly” — sometimes it is hard to keep it up with the business speed, especially in the early stages. Time from commit till the tested app on the production takes ~10 minutes.
We strive to keep the architecture clean and write clean code.
As for the frontend — React + TypeScript (we love TypeScript), there are dedicated frontend developers for that.
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**How are we working?**
At this point, we can say with confidence that we are on the right track with all the processes. Over the last few months, Jeff has added even more skilled people to accelerate business growth. Meaning — we have proper planning, objectives, experiments etc. Not 100% “by the book” yet, but we will get there soon. On the tooling — Jira, Slack & Coda.
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**What are we looking for?**
We are looking for an honest person with a good work ethic who tries to be a better person and developer every day. Since our team at this stage is very small and we are still laying the foundation for our software — we would love to see the right person who values well-written code.
We expect that you will be eager to learn about the business and preferably have some experience in FinTech already. ‍No matter the role or seniority, you cannot perform at a world-class level if you don’t understand what on earth you are building.
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**Why should you consider joining Jeff team?**
My personal (CTO) reasons why I love working here are:
✅ you learn new stuff every day, here I am talking about business growth & scaling
✅ each & every team member is highly motivated and responsible (we don’t tolerate bad actors)
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**Sounds great, but can I work from home/office?**
💼 Our office is in the “Spīķeri” (near the Central Market), but you can work from anywhere while being productive & professional. Parking place can be arranged.
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**And some other perks**
👍🏼 Health insurance
👍🏼 Extra vacation days
👍🏼 As our team members say — colleagues you would like to work with.
👍🏼 And such activities as team building abroad are coming soon as well
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**What you will be doing?**
We have a few projects — few web-based and mobile application. Some of them generate revenue and some of them are experiments.
You will participate in product planning and make the ideas come to life balancing that with the ongoing activities like technical stuff for marketing or the data team, maintenance etc.