Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Engagement

Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda

Ascenda powers the growth of leading financial services brands worldwide with premium rewards programs that differentiate their products, drive profitable customer behaviors, and create sustained engagement. We enable the world-class rewards propositions of major banks and fintechs around the globe.

Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers, and fintechs who utilise our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC, and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.

With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.

Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint!

We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.

Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services!

About Ascenda, Engagement Team

The Engagement team is committed to empowering our clients within our ecosystem. We help clients provide end users with a loyalty program platform that is fast, friendly UX, and accessible UI with many redemption options: Gift Cards, Offers, Merchandise, Travel Flight, Hotels, and Transfer Points. Our platforms are customizable from colors, and typography to fully dynamic homepage content that can be self-served via the admin application.

About the Role

We are seeking individuals with a keen enthusiasm for shaping something entirely novel from its foundation. This role offers an exceptional opportunity for those passionate about solving real-world challenges by crafting cutting-edge APIs and designing high-quality, user-friendly, and accessible interfaces. Join our dynamic team and lead innovation at the forefront. Work closely with a small, agile group to create features that automate tasks and empower merchants with seamless self-onboarding and content management. Your role promises a significant impact, contributing to the development of an innovative solution.

As a Senior Software Engineer with the team you will:

• Maintain the frontend platform, evolving its architecture to ensure it supports accessible, user-friendly UX, high performance, and scalability for millions of users.
• Improve the developer experience to help other team members fall into the pit of success.
• Optimize and stabilize CI/CD to improve team velocity.
• Help own & coordinate major delivery timelines for the projects you own
• Solve big data & hi-traffic problems from the many suppliers we integrate across the ecosystem - problems of performance, multi-tenancy, multi-locale, and self-serve configurations
• Work closely with designers, product owners, and engineers from multiple teams to develop and design solid user experiences.
• Mentor and guide the growth of junior developers, and act as a gatekeeper for our Travel team's engineering practices and development culture

Requirements

What we're looking for:

• Good technical background in building large-scale web applications on a modern frontend stack.
• Have experience participating in technical roadmaps/RFCs to communicate technical strategy and resolve architectural problems. Have experience mentoring and coaching your junior engineers.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the organization
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality.
• At least 5 years of development experience. Prior experience in the travel technology industry is a bonus
• Prior experience building configurable UX, or accessible design system components.
• A strong alignment with Ascenda’s core values of growth mindset, hands-on ownership, supportive collaboration, and radical simplicity.

What matters at Ascenda:

We are passionate, we keep things simple, we focus on results, we work together & we innovate!

We have a rewarding working place that provides a:

• High growth environment & exponential career development
• Mobile & flexible work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Travel perks & Employee rewards

Ascenda is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We thank you for your understanding that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.