Geocomply 25mo ago

Senior Software Engineer (PHP/ Golang)

Ho Chi Minh City · Hồ Chí MinhFull-timesenior

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Identify and prioritise problems, gaps and technical debt in the product. Research and evaluate new tools, technologies and frameworks to enhance the product and improve development efficiency.

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About GeoComply

We’re GeoComply! We are at the forefront of geolocation, cybersecurity, and anti-fraud innovation, developing and delivering cutting-edge technologies to help ensure regulatory compliance, combat bad online actors, alleviate user friction, and protect businesses from fraud.

Achieving significant business and revenue growth over the past three years and dubbed a tech “Unicorn,” GeoComply has been trusted by leading global brands and regulators for over ten years. Our compliance-grade geolocation technology solutions are installed on over 400 million devices and analyze over 12 billion transactions a year.

At the heart of it all is the people, united by a deep commitment to problem-solving and revolutionizing how people and businesses use the internet to instill confidence in every online interaction. With teams across five countries, three continents, and a global customer base, we have no plans to slow down.

The Role

GeoComply is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

As an Engineer at GeoComply, you can take project ownership, improve your design skills, and learn to communicate with various stakeholders to execute your plans. Your contributions will have a demonstrable positive impact on products and users.

In this role, you will be a key contributor to one of GeoComply's products, working closely with product managers and other experienced engineers to implement the product vision while ensuring that the code remains clean, maintainable, testable, and scalable.

As part of that challenge, you will provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers within the team.

You will collaborate with engineers from adjacent teams: machine learning, data science, infrastructure, and other GeoComply products.

Build great software:

Analyze requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and estimate their implementation cost.

Be a strong individual contributor, actively writing (or teaching AI how to write) high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.

Contribute to the technical roadmap:

Identify and prioritise problems, gaps and technical debt in the product.

Research and evaluate new tools, technologies and frameworks to enhance the product and improve development efficiency.

Actively ensure the product is technically prepared for future challenges, especially considering security, maintainability, and scalability.

Co-own the product:

At GeoComply, we emphasize the culture of ownership, so our engineers are empowered and encouraged to provide product development suggestions.

Provide technical input and insights to Product Managers regarding tradeoffs between scope, engineering capacity, and time constraints.

Raise the quality bar for the team:

Champion best practices and actively participate in code and design document reviews to ensure high quality.

Mentor and support other engineers, fostering their growth and development.

Cross-team collaboration

Maintain communication with other technical teams to avoid duplicate effort, incompatible solutions and solving problems other teams have already resolved.

Architecture & Modernization

Language Mastery & Transition: Possessing 5+ years of professional experience building complex enterprise web applications. You have deep expertise in PHP, but you are future-focused: you will play a key role in transforming our legacy PHP codebase into modern services powered by Golang.

Event-Driven & Async Communication: You have deep experience implementing Event-Driven Architecture to decouple systems. You are proficient with message brokers—specifically AWS SQS (our primary driver) and Kafka—to orchestrate complex workflows between services.

Legacy Transformation: You have a proven track record of modernizing legacy systems. You know how to strangle a monolith and migrate functionality without breaking the existing business logic.

Design Mastery: You hold a mastery of OOP and SOLID principles and apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize complex logic effectively.

Operational Excellence & Quality

Observability First: You understand that code isn't "done" until it's observable in production. You implement comprehensive logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring strategies to ensure system health and facilitate rapid debugging.

Quality & Root Cause Focused: You go beyond basic metrics to focus on deep structural issues. You are willing to dig deep in search of root causes to ensure long-term system health rather than applying quick patches.

SDLC Expert: You possess a high-level understanding of the entire software development lifecycle, from requirement gathering down to deployment pipelines and infrastructure.

Collaboration & Leadership

API & Interoperability Specialist: You have experience designing clear, backward-compatible, and future-proof APIs. You are comfortable using gRPC for high-performance inter-service communication, as well as standard RESTful API practices.

Technical Team Player: You are able to make sound technical decisions, resolve technical conflicts within your scope, and effectively mentor other engineers through the technology transition.

Clear, Concise Communicator: You possess a high signal-to-noise ratio. You can communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers and non-technical audiences alike.

Proactive Problem Solver: You identify and troubleshoot technical challenges, using architectural foresight to avoid them before they reach production.

Core Backend & Transition: We are currently running PHP (Laravel 11.x) and actively migrating performance-critical components to Golang. We also utilize Python and TypeScript where appropriate.

Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (focusing on SQS & EventBridge for async workflows, S3), Docker, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD for GitOps deployments.

Data & Search: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and DataBricks.

Observability: Grafana and Prometheus for real-time monitoring and metrics.

Experience with working with strongly structured languages (java, kotlin, C#)

Experience with cloud solutions (GCP, AWS)

Front-end experience (React, Typescript)

Experience or having domain knowledge in online payment, eCommerce, credit card processing, risk management, or fraud detection