Senior Full Stack Engineer

This is a very exciting opportunity to work alongside the founding members of an organization to establish and scale a truly innovative Digital Affordable-Housing Green Mortgage Bank, that strives to become the benchmark of how to galvanize social development and transform societies within a short period of time. 

Background

• Pakistan is faced with a housing shortage of 10 million currently growing by 1 million every year.
• The population, 80% without a bank account, has been starved off house financing solutions for years.
• Pakistan’s housing finance-GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world – 0.25% (South Asia: 3%, Bangladesh: 3%, India: 11%). 
• Trellis’ mission is to fill this gap by providing affordable green mortgage solutions to low and middle income groups in Pakistan.
• This is expected to significantly boost financial inclusion, home ownership and economic activity in the country.
• The senior management team has a combined experience of over 50 years in international banking, hedge funds, capital markets and financial technology.
• As a new company, we need self-motivated, driven generalists with senior-level experience
• . For driven individuals, this role provides a unique opportunity to grow rapidly and work with many types of technologies.
• We will heavily rely on cloud-native, open source technologies with the intent to give back and make a difference.
• In addition to supporting our business needs, you will have the chance to have a public impact on multiple open source communities making technology more accessible to all.

Primary Responsibilities

• As one of the first members of our software engineering team, you will be laying the groundwork for long term success
• . You will partner with our business analysts, operations team, and risk team to automate manual tasks and improve the efficiency of the business.
• You will take responsibility for front-end customizations (Angular) and back-end integrations (Java/Spring, Python).
• As we get set up, you will also assist with administration and troubleshooting of our BPM and core banking tools (open source based on Angular, Java/Spring, MySQL).
• As we build up our analytics and data science practice, you will assist with the operational of the data pipelines and machine learning models produced by our risk team. 
• As we grow, there will be opportunities to specialize and/or to move into leadership roles.
• Integrate with government and partner institutions through REST API calls
• Create scripts and services to automate manual tasks (e.g. document generation)
• Create automated unit and integration tests to ensure quality
• Define monitoring parameters to ensure visibility into production performance
• Assist risk and operations team with data modeling and database integrations
• Assist operations team with the creation of AWS Lambda functions and AWS Step Functions
• Assist operations team with automating CI/CD pipelines from git to Docker repo
• Work under limited supervision with considerable latitude for personal initiative
• Extend our CRM system with custom modules and UI elements

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer focused on web technologies
• Extensive experience with both Java/Spring and Javascript/TypeScript/Angular
• Working knowledge of Bootstrap and Webpack or equivalent
• Practical experience with git and Jenkins or equivalent including pull requests and gated check-ins
• Interfacing with databases such as MySQL
• Managing and troubleshooting Java applications
• Strong written, verbal and organizational skills (English)
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Docker containers
• Cloud/server less development (e.g. AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3)
• Experience with BPM tools
• Knowledge of CRM systems
• Proficiency with Python
• Proficiency with PHP
• Troubleshooting Tomcat or Apache web servers

Compensation

• Trellis offers a competitive compensation scheme as well as an opportunity for quick progression subject to performance
• Provident fund, Gratuity & Health Insurance covered
• Trellis is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer & highly encourages applications from all facets of society.
• We respect and seek to empower individuals and support diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.
• Employment is decided solely based on qualifications, merit and business need.
• We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. 
• If you’re looking to build your career as part of a team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.