Senior Software Engineer - Web (React / TypeScript)

About us

Endowus is Asia’s leading fee-only wealth platform. Headquartered in Singapore, we are the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS), helping everyone grow all their money with expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, low & fair fees, and a delightful personalised digital wealth experience.

Our clients entrust us with a responsibility that goes far beyond technology or financial markets - they entrust us with their wealth - their livelihoods and ambitions of a better future for themselves and their loved ones.

Our mission is clear : help people invest better so they can live easier today, and better tomorrow.

The team has deep domain knowledge in finance and technology, bringing together decades of experience from various banks and tech companies. We treasure our diversity in background and experience, and we look for people who share our beliefs in our mission.

About the team

Our mission in the Onboard team is twofold : to streamline the onboarding experience, making it seamless for clients to access Endowus' comprehensive wealth platform, and to strategically expand our client base across multiple regions. To achieve these goals, we integrate the expertise of engineers, designers, data analysts, and product thinkers. Together, we focus on crafting effortless and engaging experiences in our mobile and web applications, going beyond the traditional to set new standards in user engagement. We build our systems using cloud native patterns and operate them with high standards of engineering & operational excellence.

Our Web app is developed using TypeScript / React.js and tested using Playwright. Our deployments are 100% automated via CI / CD pipelines. You can learn more about our tech stack and culture on our blog : https : / / tech.endowus.com /

We are looking for someone with significant experience in designing & delivering multiple high impact initiatives, to join us as a hands-on senior web engineer in this team.

About this role, responsibilities & ownership

You will work on consumer-facing products delivered through iterative development, facilitating fast customer feedback loops.

You will design and build advanced desktop & mobile optimized web applications in TypeScript & React.js in a collaborative, agile environment.

You will need to demonstrate a strong product sense and be empathetic to clients' experiences of using the product.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure iterative delivery of customer value.

You will write testable, clean, efficient code that can be confidently released in production.

You will continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency & customer satisfaction.

You will mentor other engineers in the team, helping them achieve high levels of productivity, quality, and reliability.

Requirements

Bachelors' or above in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

At least 5 years of experience in building web applications in a modern front-end stack like React.js / Redux / Node.js.

Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript , HTML / CSS and RESTful APIs.

Deep experience with React.js and its lifecycles and hooks.

Strong experience with agile processes, testing, CI / CD and production error / metrics monitoring.

Eager and willing to learn new things. Staying up to date with the latest technologies.

Ability to think through architectural problems, find reasonable solutions, and work with other members to build them.

A keen eye for design and detail to deliver joyous experiences to our customers.

Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership & bias for action.

Being a team player is key. We are a small but growing team, and we believe in building an environment that fosters a sense of belonging for all of our employees.

Passionate and excited about building innovative commercial services. You are serious about building consumer-facing products when writing or reviewing code.

Nice to haves

Experience working in full-stack development including but not limited to server-side programming, RESTful API / GraphQL development, etc.

Experience working with CI / CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, AWS / GCP, CDNs, etc.

Experience working in financial services and / or B2C domain.

Exposure to CQRS / Event Sourcing architecture patterns.

Experience working with tracking solutions e.g. Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager

Our Investors, recognition, licensing

Founded in 2017, Endowus has raised a total of US$50 million in funding from investors such as UBS, EDBI, Prosus Ventures, Z Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and global leading venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

Endowus’ leadership and growth have been recognised by the industry and it has attained numerous awards including, Singapore’s Best Digital Wealth Management (Asia Asset Management’s Best of the Best Awards 2024), Singapore’s Best Digital Upgrade for enhancements made on the Endowus app (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2024), Singapore’s Best Digital Wealth Management Experience (The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2023), and Best WealthTech Solution 2023 (Asian Private Banker 9th Technology Awards). Endowus is also among the firms named in the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2023, LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2023 and Forbes’ “100 to Watch” list for 2022.

The Endowus Group comprises Endowus' licensed companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Hong Kong-based multi family office Carret Private. Endowus Group serves over a hundred thousand clients with content, advice and access. With group assets of over US$6 billion, it is one of the largest independent wealth managers in Asia. From a combination of 100% trailer fees rebates as direct cashback to clients, savings from the access to institutional share class and exclusive funds, Endowus has created more than US$40 million in savings per year for its clients.