About GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. With over 30 years’ experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud
Why you should be@GBG
- We make the world a safer place
- We trust each other and win together
- We are local experts in a global business
- We want you to be yourself
- We grow when you grow
About the team
The team is responsible for providing practical decision support solutions to address business objectives in the areas of risk prevention and fraud detection. We offer state-of-the-art software solutions and provide comprehensive client support using our expertise and flexible, client-focused approach.
The Role
Works closely with and under the guidance of the Software Engineering Manager, the role will be responsible to deliver product enhancements, improvements as well as addressing issues.
You will involve in analysing and building a technical understanding of GBG Fraud products. A key part of the role will be ensuring our projects are delivered to high standards of innovation, quality, and excellence as well as on time and budget.
What you will do
As part of an Agile development team:
- Be part of next gen product teams here in Kuala Lumpur, build up knowledge and technical capability to deliver features in line with the overall technical and product strategy
- Guide junior software engineers to be technically capable to deliver features in line with the overall technical and product strategy
- Deliver product enhancements according to the requirements and take part in new developments
- Design, Code, Automate, and refactor codes, programs, scripts, and other software services
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and provide solutions to problems with newly developed software
- Work with the Software Engineering Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Team to build the technology design to deliver new features or enhancements which will include writing detailed technical requirements, user story planning and so on
- Participation in iterative agile approaches to software development
Technical Skills
- Expert knowledge and experience with Java.
- Experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL Database applications (Database design would be an advantage)
- Experience with No SQL Database technology such as Redis (preferred) or Data Analytic Database such as Druid
- Good exposure and knowledge of Open-Source Technologies and solutions such as Kafka, Flink or Akka, Spark, Prometheus, Graffana and etc
- Knowledge of Lambda and real time streaming processing architecture
- CI/CD, cloud and containers knowledge (Terraform, Kubernetes, Dockers and etc.) would be an advantage
- Experience with Angular, graph databases such as Janus or Neo4j algorithms and UX/UI design principles would be an advantage
Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to learn new skills and technologies according to business needs and industry demands.
- Good oral and written communication skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- A strong professional, patient, and flexible attitude.
- Ability to interpret and translate customers’ needs to be able to resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Encourage a culture of innovation focused on adding value.
- Able to work as part of a team to provide guidance and assistance.
- Proven ability to prioritise and to work independently, managing one’s own workload.
- A focus on thorough software testing, resulting in a high-quality product.
Behaviours we'd like to see
We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.
As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!
Next steps
If you’re interested, please apply! We’re looking to hire the best and most engaged people into our business and we’ll make an offer once we’ve found that person.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.
To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch.
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