Responsibilities

1. Platform architecture ownership

Develop and communicate a clear architectural vision and strategy for the platform.
Align platform architecture with the company’s overall business goals and technology strategy.
Lead the design and development of the platform architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
Communicate architectural decisions and roadmaps to stakeholders at various levels within the organization.

2. Develop and deliver cloud applications

Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based applications using modern development frameworks and tools.
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards.
Ensure cloud applications are designed for scalability, high availability, and optimal performance.
Implement monitoring and alerting systems to proactively manage application performance and health.

3. Refactor and improve existing solutions

Conduct thorough code reviews to identify areas of improvement in existing solutions.
Analyse current codebase for inefficiencies, bugs, and potential performance bottlenecks.
Implement changes to optimize existing code for better performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Enhance the functionality of existing solutions by incorporating new features and technologies.
Apply best practices in refactoring, ensuring code quality and consistency.
Utilize automated testing and continuous integration tools to validate refactored code.

4. Mentor other team members

Utilize automated testing and continuous integration tools to validate refactored code.
Provide Technical Guidance: Offer expertise and knowledge to team members to help solve complex technical issues and enhance their understanding of software development practices.
Conduct Code Reviews: Review code submissions from junior developers, providing constructive feedback to improve code quality, performance, and adherence to coding standards.

Requirements

English Proficiency: Solid written and spoken English skills are paramount.
Customer Interaction: Ability to work with English-speaking customers from Australia and Eastern Europe.
Advanced knowledge of C# and .NET/.NET Core frameworks.
Design and implementation of RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
Expertise in profiling and optimizing application performance.
AWS Expertise: Proficiency in AWS technologies, including EC2, RDS, S3, and Elastic Load Balancing.
Real-time Trading Platforms: Experience in supporting real-time trading platforms running on highly optimized servers.
PostgreSQL Expertise: Solid experience with PostgreSQL, preferably with exposure to AWS RDS and serverless Aurora.
CI/CD: Proficiency in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies and tools.
Web Development: Basic understanding of web development principles and best practices.
Team Collaboration: Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Problem Solving: Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
[Preferred] RUST commercial/business programming experience.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certification.
Previous experience in the financial and real-time trading industry.

Alephon Vietnam was established by a group of industry veterans from New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and the UAE (Dubai). Our head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City (D7). Alephon is a cloud solution engineering company with focus on small and medium businesses. We assist with the full development lifecycle of digital products. Our mission is to enable small and medium businesses to gain a technology edge by engineering new custom solutions and re-engineering existing solutions.

Our Services:

We specialize in the delivery of cloud-native solutions on major platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure and Aliyun. Our offerings are meant to complement the development lifecycle.

Design and delivery:
- We build and deliver economically feasible solutions with predictable post-production requirements, our agile engineering process ensures full alignment with the business outcomes, we specialise in low-cost serverless solutions and a curtailed repository of efficient design patterns.
- Our unique billing model is based on pre-agreed milestones not hours. Our approach gives our clients peace of mind with steady and predictable spending and protection from all possible technical risks.
Operations and support:
- We offer operational support to existing systems with unrestricted time zones, we can cover critical infrastructure and systems around the globe up to 24x7.
Legacy migration and Re-engineering
- To complement our lifecycle services, we offer specialised migration services covering existing solutions, including applications, legacy data formats even if it is undocumented via our reverse engineering services.
- Alephon would re-engineer and deliver a functionally equivalent modern implementation of legacy systems, with logic and data migration, documentation and post-production services (support, operations, and training).
Consulting
- We offer whitepapers and solution roadmaps for complex transformation programs and uplift. Our consultation services will ensure that best practices are met and that pragmatic cost-effective solutions with all strategic assessments pre/post production.