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SALMON ROBOTICS LIMITED

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11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

👥 B2C

Fintech • Banking • B2C

SALMON ROBOTICS LIMITED is a financial technology company building digital banking and consumer finance services in the Philippines under the Salmon Group and Salmon Bank brands. Backed by experienced finance and tech leaders and international investors, it operates a licensed rural bank, offers deposit products, consumer lending, payment and QR solutions, and deploys AI and data analytics to improve security, customer experience, and inclusivity. The company emphasizes customer care, intuitive product design, partnerships with retailers and payment networks, and 24x365 dependable service to expand access to modern financial services for millions of Filipinos.

📋 Description

• Months 1–6: you're the primary technical presence on a greenfield initiative — making foundational architecture decisions, shaping the infrastructure setup, defining the release process and testing strategy, and working directly with business stakeholders to keep technical direction grounded in real product needs. You write production code yourself. • Month 6 onward: you build and lead the team around what you've built — Kotlin developers, system analysts, and QA engineers — continuing to own architecture as the product moves from foundation to production at scale. • Stay the translation layer between business and engineering throughout both phases: you set direction before the team existed, and you remain that link as it grows. • Make the foundational architecture decisions for a new banking domain — made once, by you, without working around anyone else's prior choices. • Assess and evolve the current infrastructure setup and CI/CD approach for a product starting from scratch. • Define the release process and testing strategy from the ground up. • Write production code in Java and Kotlin during the solo phase. • Build and lead a mixed-discipline team of Kotlin developers, system analysts, and QA engineers from month 6 onward. • Lead code reviews and design reviews, mentoring the team on distributed systems thinking and production ownership. • Own delivery across the team's technical initiatives — stay hands-on rather than shifting into pure coordination.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong commercial Java experience — must-have, not a nice-to-have. • JVM expertise more broadly; commercial Kotlin experience valued alongside Java. • At least 1 year of architectural or technical leadership experience — formal or de facto. • Genuine comfort operating solo for an extended period: defining architecture, infrastructure direction, release process, and testing strategy without a team in place. • Experience designing distributed systems and making real production-scale architectural decisions. • Experience with PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tooling. • Ability to communicate directly and effectively with business stakeholders, not just engineers. • English B2 or above.

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock option plan: 4-year vesting. • 22 vacation days + Philippine public holidays + 15 sick days. • Medical insurance for you and your family, starting day one. Access to an internal psychological support specialist. • Company-provided tools and equipment. • Relocation support (If applicable): flights and two weeks of accommodation for you, your family, and your pets. Visa, paperwork, logistics: handled. • Regular offsites, sports, and team events across Southeast Asia. Top-performing teams earn a beach house week around SEA. • Professional development: internal expert meetups, external conferences, and opportunities to publish articles and share expertise.