Engineering Manager - DevOps

First Digital Finance Corporation (FDFC) is a fin-tech company building disruptive and innovative products in retail credit for Southeast Asia. 

The company operates BillEase, the top-rated, buy now pay later (BNPL) platform for merchants and their customers in the Philippines with more than 1m downloads.

Vision: Build financial services that delight and enable consumers

Mission: Use software and AI to build financial products that are at least 10x better than the status quo for our customers

The Role

At First Digital Finance Corp, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We will count on our site reliability engineer (SRE) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we’re seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale data in real-time. Specifically, we’re searching for someone who has fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint, and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplift
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
• You must have experience in design/build in AWS, this is a deal stopper, if you don't have

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline
• 5+ years experience as DevOps within 2 in management
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++ and JavaScript
• Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn) ArgoCD would be great as well.
• A proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement

What's on Offer?

• Excellent career development opportunities
• Great work environment
• Flexible working options