Build a Secure & Scalable API to Enable Digital Infrastructure
Xendit is an Indonesian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud and helps other businesses grow exponentially. We serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs, eCommerce platform integrations, and easy to use applications for individual entrepreneurs, SMBs, and enterprises alike.
Our main focus is to build the most advanced payment rails for Indonesia, with a clear goal in mind — to make payments in Indonesia simple, secure and easy for everyone. We currently serve local SMEs to some of Indonesia’s largest tech startups and also giant-sized businesses like Samsung. We process millions of transactions monthly, growing 8% month on month for the last 4 years. We are trusted and backed by some of the largest VCs in the world, who invested in Facebook, Slack, Twitch and Grab, and are alumni of the prestigious YCombinator (S15).
Mission
- Deliver an API platform which can support the growth of Xendit’s products and services
- Own the security and performance of our API gateway and authentication services
- Drive API as a platform for other product teams within Xendit
- Enable authentication and authorization modes that merchants want like OAuth
Responsibilities
- Build a scalable and performant API gateway
- Manage and maintain authorization & authentication services
- Deliver standardized methods of interfacing with API gateway for other product teams
- Own client libraries in languages our merchants use to integrate
- Owns platform for API & product documentation
- Reduce time to integration by working with merchants to answer questions and update documentation
- Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed
You may be a good fit if
- Built high performance and secure systems
- Have experience with implementing authorization and authentication protocols
- Have worked in a fast paced startup environment
- Work well within a team of other engineers of various levels
- Driving long term roadmaps and complex technical plans
- You thrive on autonomy and have proven you can push towards a goal by yourself
- You communicate well across teams
- Bonus points if you’ve worked specifically on an API gateway or fintech products
What we care about
- Solve for the customer first: You build what customers want. You think about what is right for customers, not what is easiest for you
- Demonstrate mastery of honey badgery: You make ambitious goals. Then execute…no matter what stands in the way. When knocked down, you get up
- Take on challenges willingly and can be trusted to execute: You can be trusted to get things done right the first time quickly. You hit your deadlines
- You’re like us: You smile a lot, think work is fun and don’t take yourself too seriously. You measure yourself against the best and believe feedback is the breakfast of champions. You follow the golden rule
- You’re remarkable: People naturally talk about how awesome you are. If we can’t find someone who raves about you then it’s unlikely we will too
