Senior Software Engineer (Core)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 20, 2026. Thunes scores B on the Alion truth index.
About Thunes
Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 140 countries and more than 90 currencies. Thunes’ Network connects directly to over 12 billion mobile wallets, stablecoin wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 220 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay HK and many more.
Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection, and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally. Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.
Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, New York, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/
Context of the role
We’re looking for Senior Software Engineer (Core - full stack) who are passionate about the FinTech industry, wants to work in a disruptive, fast-growing and exciting environment. As part of the Engineering team, based in Singapore, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.
Reporting to the team’s Software Engineering Lead, you will combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader. Working on our core platform and services you will help us to create the future of the company, by ensuring the scalability and performance of the platform, delivering new functionalities, automating and improving development processes.
The Engineering team is responsible for developing our Core and Business Products and getting them to production in the most efficient and fastest way possible. We architect solutions, tools and platforms to solve business needs and tools around provisioning, configuration, CICD, monitoring, SLA, performance and uptime. Our team is passionate about the details and we work very closely with a wide range of stakeholders. Processing millions of transactions per month and interconnecting hundreds of partners from all around the world, Thunes is continuously growing its coverage and footprint in the industry. A career with Thunes provides invaluable experience in an exciting and rapidly expanding market and an opportunity to be part of a truly global company with various offices worldwide and a workforce that includes dozens of different nationalities.
Key Responsibilities
We’re looking for a highly driven, self-motivated, technically excellent person who is truly excited about having a meaningful impact within the company. In this role, you will combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader. Working on our core platform and services you will help us to create the future of the company, by ensuring the scalability and performance of the platform, delivering new functionalities, automating and improving development processes.
- Work on highly available services, exposed mainly by APIs developing both client and server side software
- Participate in the design, implementation and shipping of new products to internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, scalable and documented software
- Understand, apply and champion the principles of the agile methodology (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc..)
- Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives
What we are looking for
- Preferably a degree in Information Technology, Engineering Computer Science or related fields
- Software engineers that are motivated, curious and have an appetite for learning
- Proficient in one or several of the following programming/scripting languages: Golang (Required), Perl, Python
- Experience with front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience with VueJS or similar JavaScript libraries/frameworks
- Experience with Relational Databases
- Passionate about Agile Methodology and practices (TDD, CI, CD, etc..)
- Experience designing and developing web and API solutions as a Full Stack Engineer or similar role
- Interest in the Fintech Industry and market innovations
Although we believe that we have chosen the most optimal tech stack to solve our issues we rely on our engineers to architect and implement their own solutions.
Our core services tech stack are hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Our main tech stack consists of Golang, Python, Perl (Mojolicious) PostgreSQL, Vue.js, Docker and Nginx.
We can offer you an environment where we have a culture of learning and feedback. You will be challenged to own your code - write, test, deploy it, multiple times per day. Our technology is used 24/7 and around the world, it needs to be reliable, secure and massively scalable. You will also need to interface with technology teams in different countries. Our environment and packages match the ambition of the company - building world class engineering teams.
Sound like you? Apply now!