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Salmon Group

Java Developer

Remote
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 2 October 2026.

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About the role

🌍 Remote | UTC+8 | Core collaboration hours: 1:00–7:00 PM Manila Time

Salmon Group's standard text

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.

Salmon Group's standard text

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 role:

You'll design, build, and scale the core banking and partner platforms behind Salmon's products — the APIs, integrations, and shared components other engineering teams build on.

What you'll do:

  • Work on high-load, mission-critical systems where reliability directly affects live banking and lending products.
  • Build on a modern JVM stack — Kotlin, Ktor, jOOQ, coroutines, Arrow — running in Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
  • Influence architectural decisions on shared platform components used across the company.

What you'll own:

  • 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 other teams depend on.
  • Implement high-performance integrations with partners and third-party systems.
  • Contribute to the architecture, scalability, and reliability of the core banking and partner platforms.

What makes you a strong fit:

  • 5+ years in the JVM ecosystem, with strong expertise in Kotlin or Java.
  • Deep understanding of concurrency and asynchronous programming.
  • Experience designing systems with clean architectures — DDD and event-driven approaches.
  • Solid knowledge of distributed systems and their trade-offs.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, preferably in an AWS environment.
  • Readiness to work primarily in Kotlin.

What we offer:

Ownership and flexibility

  • Stock option plan — four-year vesting with a 25% cliff after the first year.
  • Fully remote work with core collaboration hours from 13:00 to 7:00 PM Manila time (UTC+8).
  • Company-provided tools and equipment.
Salmon Group's standard text

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.

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.
  • High-performing teams can earn a dedicated beach house week in Southeast Asia.
Salmon Group's standard text

We believe strong teams are built by people with different backgrounds, experiences, and points of view. Salmon is an equal opportunity employer, and we make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Docker

Rare in Salmon Group's other 24 open postings.

Standard for backend roles

AWS · Java · Kubernetes

Common in backend postings at any company.

69% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Salmon Group's standard text, folded away below.

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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 4 open in Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Kotlin (4 of 4), Java (3 of 4), AWS (2 of 4), Docker (2 of 4), Kubernetes (2 of 4)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Salmon Group's own job board.

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