Coins is a Southeast Asian fintech company that enables anyone, including those without a bank account, to easily access financial services directly from their phone. Locations, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
What We’re Looking For
Experience in Windows PC, Mac OS administration;
Experience with Active Directory services;
Experience with network basics (routing, TCP/IP stack, etc);
Experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role;
Experience with remote user support;
Experience work with big remote team;
Experience negotiating with suppliers/sellers.
Things To Do:
Install and configure software and hardware (Mac OS, Linux, Windows);
Manage it assets (involve in purchasing, inventory, distribute, provision, clean-up etc);
Work with security team to improve overall company security;
Set up accounts and workstations;
Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements;
Troubleshoot issues and outages;
Ensure security through access controls, antiviruses etc;
Develop expertise to train staff on new technologies;
Build an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies/procedures;
Create and maintain inventory of internal IT resources.
How to Stand Out
Experience in working across cultures;
Experience working in a fast-paced, diverse, and challenging environment;
Self-starter and can work with minimal supervision;
Experience working with a fintech start-up is a plus.
Why This is Exciting
You’ll have the opportunity to work with our talented global team. We bring vastly different skills and experiences to the table and are all motivated by the shared goal of expanding financial inclusion for hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia
What we offer
Work anywhere in a remote-friendly-distributed environment with a flexible schedule and extended vacation;
Friendly geo distributed team of experienced professionals, who happily joined us after working in well-known IT/product companies and perspective startups;
Work and collaborate effectively with cross-functional compact teams which are constantly improving their tools, pipelines, and working environment;
Customer-driven development: we don't develop features without listening to our customers, each step makes the product more convenient, useful, secure, and reliable for our users;
Professional growth: we invest time and money in your career by sponsoring IT conferences, courses and training;
Paid medical insurance, coworking rental, technical equipment at choice, and business trips to our Manila HQ;
Ever-open offices in Manila and Bangkok, which you can visit at any time.
We are looking for a savvy Data Engineer to join our Data team. In this role you will be responsible for building and shipping data-driven applications that drive the existing and new business initiatives. We actively seek individuals who are high in industriousness and orderliness, with an intrinsic interest in data platforms and distributed systems. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills in creating software solutions around data.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Build and maintain the organization’s data pipeline systems;
Plan, build, deploy, and maintain scalable kappa-architectured machine learning infrastructure;
Monitor and provide transparency into data quality across systems: accuracy, consistency, completeness, etc;
Work on the data platform for BI team that prepares reports for different company departments;
Work closely with data science team on delivering and operationalizing ML-based applications in production;
Build the ETL framework;
Build ML driven and data-science-friendlyML-driven tools ecosystems.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Advanced programming skills using Java / Scala;
Knowledge of Linux and command-line tools;
Understanding of distributed systems in general;
SQL;
Experience in data processing frameworks: Hadoop/Spark/Flink;
Knowledge of different storage engines - ideally relational, non-relational, distributed file systems;
Self-management and communications skills.
GOOD TO HAVE
General programming skills in Python;
Python data-science tools and libraries (Jupyter, scikit-learn, numpy, scipy, pandas etc);
Data analytics;
Multi-threading programming;
Experience building Data Lake / BI platform / DWH;
CI/CD infrastructure;
Managed services on the cloud: AWS, GCP, etc;
Open-source workflow managers: Apache Oozie, Apache Airflow, Luigi, Azkaban, etc;
Docker, Kubernetes.
WHAT WE OFFER
Work with Big Data;
Use cutting edge technologies: AWS, Databricks, Metabase, Amplitude, and others;
Dive into nonstandard tasks and be immersed in the combination of crypto and non-crypto areas the business which is actively growing, participate in the inhouse end-to-end development of tools and ecosystems;
We value and cherish each team member because everyone makes a difference and brings great value to the business;
Fully remote work with extended vacation - if desired, it is possible to relocate to the Philippines or Thailand;
Flexible schedule: for BI team it is required to be available in UTC+8 working hours;
Friendly geo-distributed team of experienced professionals, who happily joined us after working in well-known IT/product companies and perspective startups;
Customer-driven development: we don't develop features without listening to our customers, each step makes the product more convenient, useful, secure and reliable for our users;
Professional growth: we invest time and money in your career by sponsoring IT conferences, courses and training;
Paid medical insurance, coworking rental, technical equipment at choice and business trips to our Manila HQ;
Ever-open offices in Manila and Bangkok, which you can visit at any time.
We are looking for a highly enthusiastic Data Scientist to join our growing data team.
You will be responsible for the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of machine learning models.
We actively seek individuals with an intrinsic interest in the design and evaluation of field experiments at scale. The ideal candidate works well without supervision and is capable of both having independent thoughts and acting on them.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Design and develop machine learning heavy applications (for fraud prevention, credit scoring, customer segmentation, etc);
Investigate and evaluate data science approaches for product enhancements;
Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities, and road maps.
WHAT WE OFFER
Work with Big Data;
Cutting edge cloud-based environment and tools: AWS, k8s, docker, Databricks spark, delta, mellow;
Non-trivial data science projects - anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, customers funds protection, credit scoring, customer segmentation;
We value and cherish each team member because everyone makes a difference and brings great value to the business;
Flexible schedule, fully remote work;
Friendly geo-distributed yellow team of experienced professionals, who happily joined us after working in well-known IT/product companies and perspective startups;
Customer-driven development: we don't develop features without listening to our customers, each step makes the product more convenient, useful, secure, and reliable for our users;
Professional growth: we invest time and money in your career by sponsoring IT conferences, courses and training;
Paid medical insurance, coworking rental, technical equipment at choice and business trips to our Manila HQ;
Ever-open offices in Manila and Bangkok, which you can visit at any time.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
At least 5 years experience in building machine learning models including their deployment in production systems to drive real business impacts;
Over 5 years experience of working on data projects which require data exploration, data manipulation, and data visualization;
Supervised & unsupervised learning algorithms hands-on experience;
Strong knowledge of Python data-science tools and libraries (eg Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn, Finance/crypto, and/or XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost).
GOOD TO HAVE
Anti-fraud data analysis and modeling experience;
Credit scoring data analysis and modeling experience;
Finance / crypto domain knowledge;
Big data experience: Spark / Hadoop / Presto / etc;
TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch;
Managed services on the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc).
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are actively looking for the best engineers who have the following experience and skills:
Experience in developing fault-tolerant and self-healing systems
Ability to see the whole picture and work on the most important parts of it - define priorities based on system metrics
Docker, Kubernetes infrastructure understanding (deploy techniques and strategies)
Experience with Infrastructure as a Code and/or Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Terraform)
Experience scaling high-traffic distributed systems
Understanding how AWS or other (GCP/Azure) cloud works
Experience with Unix (Linux) and a wide spectrum of internet standards and technologies
Good communication skills and documentation oriented mindset
TECHNOLOGIES WE USE
Go and Python as main Programming Languages for the majority of our backend
Terraform to manage AWS and treat Infrastructure as Code
Helm as Package Manager for Kubernetes allows us to have decent contract between Product Engineering and SRE team
Kubernetes is enhanced with Monitoring(Prometheus), vertical and horizontal pod auto-scaler, network security policies
Storage Layer is implemented on a classic solution with PostgreSQL
Kafka is taking its place in the Event/Message bus
Redis as a cache
Elasticsearch as a log storage
Ansible for automating of routine tasks
GOOD TO HAVE
Good leadership and ownership skills will be a big bonus
Experience of developing customer-facing applications
Knowledge of Traditional and Distributed Database Technologies
Experience with remote work and good self-discipline
Go/Python programming languages on a good level
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands
Engineer extensive scripting and automation to enable applications to install and run in all environments with minimal manual intervention
Identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot performance issues
Work with System Architect to design and implement ideas
Design and implement cloud infrastructure: monitoring, alerting, deep-tracing, logging
Build solid automation system for QA/Stress-test/Staging environments
Refactor and optimize non-compliant to internal standards parts of our eco-system
Develop in Go horizontal (used across the company) services (SMS/Email gateways, internal tools, deployment mechanisms)
WHAT WE OFFER
To be an important part of the development of a cool mobile application
Team with professionals. Our guys are the best at their work
Career and professional growth. It means that we invest time and money in your career(IT conferences, courses, training, software - all that you need for good work)
You can be sure that in our company a warm welcome awaits you. Our HR Team and your Team Leader can help you to be a part of Coins
Remote work. You may work from home or the beach. No matter. The main thing is the result
Flexible vacations
We are looking for an IT Risk Manager to join our Security team and help us with Risk Management and corresponding governance processes. The successful candidate should have proven experience in Risk Management in the Philippines in the Banking industry.
You will be a part of our geographically spread international team of highly skilled professionals
Requirements
5+ years of experience in IT Audit, Information Security, or IT governance roles
Fluent English
Advanced knowledge of risk management concepts, infrastructure, and information security
Working knowledge of BSP regulations
Familiarity with the international Information Security standards (ISO 2700x, COBIT, CIS, NIST frameworks)
Must have direct IT and business stakeholders management experience
Must be motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team and must demonstrate ethical responsibility, maturity, and discretion
The following certification(s), or equivalent experience, are preferred: CRISC, CISM, CISA, CISSP, ITIL, GCCC
Would be a plus if you have:
Familiarity with the Agile environment
Familiarity with the Cloud Computing principles: SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
Experience in Business Continuity Planning
Experience with AWS
Russian language
Responsibilities
Operate the Risk Management Framework
Perform the Vendor Assessments and Vendor Management activities
Establish the periodical risk review process with the risk owners
Identify the gaps in our IT controls by the BSP compliance regulations
Establish the escalation process for the High risks
Work closely with Engineering and Business representatives to drive risk assessment and remediation
Be the main point of contact for our Compliance team about the incidents and help to report them to the regulators if required
Provide consultation on security policies and general best practices
Participate in audits to establish compliance with security policy and BSP regulations
Contribute to the individual, team, and security function continuous improvement projects
Coins are Southeast Asia's leading platform that allows anyone to access financial services from their phone: banking, remittances, mobile air-time (prepaid load), bill payments, game credits, online shopping, and digital currency purchases. Founded in 2014 in the Philippines and serving over 5 million customers, our mission is to increase financial inclusion across Southeast Asia's 650 million population, which remains largely unbanked.
We are looking for a Middle Go/Python developer to work on existing and new payments-related services in our Crypto team, which is responsible for the backend services of Coins. pro app: quotes for exchanges, cryptocurrency integrations, trader bots on crypto exchanges, money balancers. Our current stack is Golang and Python, we do new services on Golang and support old ones on Python, and we also have a plan to rewrite old Python services to Golang.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
A new engineer will do well at this position if she or he pays attention to details and is interested in:
clear, idiomatic code;
reasoning about service boundaries, SLAs;
designing and building resilient systems (chaos engineering);
databases and distributed systems;
load testing - we use Yandex.Tank.
TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES THAT WE USE
Across the organization, we use a proposal process inspired by Go proposal and Kubernetes enhancements. Significant changes to Coins infrastructure and services are first discussed and formally documented before they can be implemented.
We endorse everyone to write documentation and share knowledge. Coins have the docs repository of engineering guidelines (style guides, development workflow, service layout, observability) including storage usage advice, e.g., how to efficiently implement finite state machines in PostgreSQL, row locks vs advisory locks, reliable data delivery in Kafka. In order to see the bigger picture, Coins's architecture is described as well (developers understand how a service fits in there). Anyone is free to propose new ideas which go through a peer review. Coins engineers aspire to keep code and tech stack boring to tame accidental complexity and focus on delivering value to our customers:
AWS, Terraform
Kubernetes, Helm, Nginx, Envoy
Jaeger, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana
Postgres
Kafka
Redis
Go (domain-driven design based on Go kit)
Python (mostly Django, you may rarely encounter Tornado, aiohttp, and Flask)
WHAT WE OFFER
Work anywhere in a remote-friendly environment with a flexible schedule and extended vacation - if desired, it is possible to relocate to the Philippines or Thailand and work there;
Friendly geo-distributed team of experienced professionals, who happily joined us after working in well-known IT/product companies and perspective startups;
Work and collaborate effectively with cross-functional compact teams which are constantly improving their tools, pipelines, and working environment;
Customer-driven development: we don't develop features without listening to our customers, each step makes the product more convenient, useful, secure and reliable for our users;
Professional growth: we invest time and money in your career by sponsoring IT conferences, courses and training;
Paid medical insurance, coworking rental, technical equipment at choice, and business trips to our Manila HQ;
Ever-open offices in Manila and Bangkok, which you can visit at any time. remote-friendly.
We are looking for a Senior Go/Python Engineer to join our Anti-Fraud team, which develops our core security components like authorization, authentication, and anti-fraud systems, security incident response tools. In this role, you will be involved in designing and developing of the internal anti-fraud system that will analyze the data, evaluate banking and internet transactions to detect any suspicious user behavior and activities for the likelihood of fraud. You will be at the forefront of increasing the company's security, helping the business save money. You will collaborate with international geo-distributed teams of professionals: internal compliance, web development, and integrations, data. The perfect candidate would have solid production experience in developing internal infrastructure systems.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
5+ years of experience in FinTech, Big IT companies experience, Tech startups;
Fluent English;
Timezone GMT+0 - GMT+8;
Security Fundamentals;
Experience building complex systems;
Ability to express the analysis in documentation;
Experience in system architecture;
Experience in the development of HL, HA applications;
Tech stack:
Languages: Python, Go
DB: PostgreSQL, Redis
Docker, K8s.
GOOD TO HAVE
AWS Data analysis stack: Glue, Athena, S3;
Databricks;
Experience with Agile Product Development;
Experience with financial services or crypto.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Design, deliver and support core components of the company's systems;
Participate in the projects, including AAA, Anti-Fraud system and components development, Automation of the response to the fraudulent and\or other malicious activities.
WHAT WE OFFER
Work anywhere in a remote-friendly environment with a flexible schedule and extended vacation - if desired, it is possible to relocate to the Philippines or Thailand and work there;
Friendly geo-distributed team of experienced professionals, who happily joined us after working in well-known IT/product companies and perspective startups;
Work and collaborate effectively with cross-functional compact teams which are constantly improving their tools, pipelines, and working environment;
Customer-driven development: we don't develop features without listening to our customers, each step makes the product more convenient, useful, secure, and reliable for our users;
Professional growth: we invest time and money in your career by sponsoring IT conferences, courses, and training;
Paid medical insurance, coworking rental, technical equipment at choice, and business trips to our Manila HQ;
Ever-open offices in Manila and Bangkok, which you can visit at any time.
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