About this role
Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines.
We combine global fintech expertise with deep local market knowledge to make financial services simple, accessible, and useful for millions of people across the region.
7M+ app downloads. 2M+ monthly active users. 7,000+ partner stores. US$310M+ raised from leading global investors.
Manila-based, globally distributed, and hybrid-first — our team spans 45+ countries.
If you want to solve complex problems at scale and impact how millions of people access and manage money, come build with us.
Southeast Asia's fintech moment starts here.
About the roleYou'll join the Python Development team to design and build new backend services, expanding engineering capacity so Salmon can launch strategically important new service lines.
What you'll doDesign and build new backend services in a microservice, event-driven environment, with reliability as the primary constraint.
Coordinate architecture and integrations with the Core and RBB teams to keep cross-team delivery consistent.
Contribute to the delivery of a major new service line — for example collections or cross-matching graphs — as business priorities take shape.
What you'll ownOwn key components in the existing architecture and take on new service domains as they come up.
Design service architecture and choose communication patterns between services.
Instrument services with metrics for monitoring and alerting, and cover them with unit tests.
Identify and resolve technical debt and architectural bottlenecks.
Build and maintain shared libraries and tooling for recurring tasks.
Explore and adopt new instruments, and bring your own ideas to how we build.
What makes you a strong fit3+ years of production experience as a Python backend developer.
Strong Python: typing, testing, packaging, asyncio, threading, multiprocessing.
Production experience with microservice architecture.
Familiarity with event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, preferably on AWS EKS.
Nice to have
Experience with AWS and Terraform, domain-driven design, a statically typed compiled language, work in finance, antifraud or risk, or graph databases and graph-based data models.
What we offerBuild what's next in Southeast Asian fintech.
Ownership and flexibility
Stock option plan — four-year vesting with a 25% cliff after the first year
Hybrid-first, with fully remote work available for eligible roles and core collaboration hours from 12:00 to 19:00 Manila time (UTC+8)
Company-provided tools and equipment
Office in Bonifacio Global City, Manila — a modern, walkable district at the centre of the Philippines' growing tech scene
Health and time off
Medical insurance support for you and your family through co-funding or reimbursement, depending on your location and subject to policy limits
Access to an internal mental health support specialist
22 vacation days, Philippine public holidays, and 15 sick days
105 days of paid maternity leave and up to 14 days of paid paternity leave for employees relocating to Manila
Relocation and family support
Relocation support for you, your family — including flights, two weeks of accommodation, visas, paperwork, and logistics
Reimbursement of eligible pet relocation expenses
US$2,500 per year for flights home
Baby and family stipends for employees relocating to Manila: US$1,000 per month for each child under two and US$500 per month for each child aged two to 18
Growth and team experience
Opportunities to learn and share your expertise through internal expert meetups, external conferences, speaking opportunities, and industry publications
Company-sponsored trips to Manila to meet and work with your team in person
Regular team offsites, sports activities, and team events
High-performing teams can earn a dedicated beach house week in Southeast Asia
Considering a move to Manila? See what life with Salmon looks like