java developer

Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines. It combines global fintech expertise with local market knowledge to make financial services simple, accessible, and useful for millions of people across the region.

• Work on high-load, mission-critical systems supporting live banking and lending products
• Build on a modern JVM stack running in Docker and Kubernetes on AWS
• Influence architectural decisions for shared platform components used across the company
• Design and evolve banking APIs for mobile applications and internal and external services
• Build scalable backend services in Kotlin and modern JVM technologies
• Develop public APIs, internal SDKs, and shared platform components used by other engineering teams
• Implement high-performance integrations with partners and third-party systems
• Contribute to the architecture, scalability, and reliability of the core banking and partner platforms

• Have 5+ years of experience in the JVM ecosystem and strong expertise in Kotlin or Java
• Understand concurrency and asynchronous programming
• Have experience designing systems with clean architectures, including DDD and event-driven approaches
• Have solid knowledge of distributed systems and their trade-offs
• Have hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, preferably in an AWS environment
• Be ready to work primarily in Kotlin

• Stock option plan with four-year vesting and a 25% cliff after the first year
• Company-provided tools and equipment
• Medical insurance support for the employee and family through co-funding or reimbursement, depending on location and subject to policy limits
• Access to an internal mental health support specialist
• 22 Vacation days, Philippine public holidays, and 15 sick days
• Opportunities to learn and share expertise through internal expert meetups, external conferences, speaking opportunities, and industry publications
• Company-sponsored trips to Manila to meet and work with the team in person
• High-performing teams can earn a dedicated beach house week in Southeast Asia
• Core collaboration hours are 1:00–7:00 PM Manila time (UTC+8)