About GBG 

Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere

We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification.

With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live.

 

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 design & 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in iterative Agile approaches to software development, including the full process from concept to deployment.
• In time, form part of an on-call support roster.

Skills we're looking for

Technical Skills

• Superior knowledge and experience with Java.
• Hands on experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL database applications (Database design would be an advantage).
• Experience with No SQL database technology such as Redis (preferred) and/or data analytic databases such as Apache Druid is strong added advantage.
• 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, HelmChart 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

• Willing and able 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 and contribute positively to team’s success.
• 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.

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner 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. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at gbgplc.com/careers.

Unleash your potential and be part of our mission to power safe and rewarding digital lives.