Principal Backend Engineer

About the Company

At Amartha, we empower micro-businesses across Indonesia, enabling growth and equal prosperity. We've supported over 2.7 million entrepreneurs–mostly women–by disbursing IDR 22.8 trillion in funding. As we step into 2025, Amartha is evolving into a technology-driven financial ecosystem, expanding our reach in lending, funding, and payments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services that deliver impact every day
• Operate and maintain highly scalable services
• Develop tools to improve the existing process, including infrastructure reliability, service performance, and developer's productivity
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and learning experience
• Coordinate across teams (Mobile, Frontend, DevOps, Data, Product, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Solve challenging financial access problems in Indonesia by using cutting-edge technology

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a related field
• Advanced knowledge of Go Language
• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications
• Experience with distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL)
• Systematic problem-solving approach with knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Experience with TDD and refactoring large systems
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• Good communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Grafana
• Experience with Prometheus