About The Role

We're looking for an exceptional Product Architect to own and shape our TymeX architecture. This isn't an ivory tower architecture role where you create perfect designs in isolation. You'll be in action with product and engineering teams, making pragmatic technology decisions that balance speed, cost, and quality.

This role demands someone who can think like a business owner and build like an engineersomeone who obsesses over simplicity, cost efficiency, and customer/business value. You'll challenge expensive vendor solutions, advocate for building vs. buying when it makes sense, and constantly ask is there a simpler, cheaper way to solve this You'll live with your decisions through code reviews, incident responses, and operational feedback loopsensuring your architectures aren't just elegant on paper but resilient in production.

Please note that expat candidates will need to relocate to Ho Chi Minh City

What You'll Do

Drive Product & Business Value

Partner with Product Owners and Engineering to challenge requirements and solve real customer problems
Design with customer empathyslow approvals lose customers, confusing flows increase defaults
Prioritize ruthlessly based on impactsimple solutions that ship fast beat perfect architectures that take months
Build lean, cost-efficient systems for price-sensitive markets

Lead Technical Architecture

Champion simplicity systems any engineer can understand, question assumptions and push for simpler, faster, cheaper solutions
Design secure, resilient, scalable architectures that handle peak loads and graceful failures
Bridge technology-business gaps by translating complex concepts into clear business language

Enable & Grow Teams

Empower teams to make decisionscoach, don't command
Stay on the ground through code reviews to validate architectural assumptions
Pair with engineers during complex implementations and production incidents
Participate in post-mortems and operational reviewsown and improve when designs cause issues
Mentor engineers to think architecturally and delegate decisions as teams mature
Foster psychological safety where teams challenge ideas and admit mistakes freely

Continuously Learn & Improve

Stay ahead of evolving technologies, industry best practices, and competitive landscapes
Question assumptions relentlesslyWe've always done it this way is not a reason
Be intellectually honest: This design is complex because I don't fully understand the problem yet

Requirements

What We're Looking For

Engineering Foundation :

8+ years in software engineering, especially backend systems (APIs, databases, message queues, distributed systems, event-driven architectures)
Designed complex, distributed systems balancing consistency, availability e.g., understand trade-offs: When to use synchronous vs. asynchronous communication, when strict consistency matters vs. eventual consistency is acceptable
Handle failure scenarios: Network partitions, service outages, database failuresdesign for graceful degradation
Cloud-native systems: Good experience with AWS, Azure, or GCPcompute, storage, databases, messaging, managed services. You know how to build cost-efficient cloud architectures
Databases & data modeling: Strong understanding of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases
DevSecOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS), infrastructure-as-code, monitoring/observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch), secure coding, OWASP basics

Product & Leadership:

Product thinking: Track record of making technology decisions that drive business outcomesfaster time-to-market, lower costs, better customer experience, higher approval rates, lower default rates
Customer empathy: Can articulate how technical decisions impact borrowers. You've analyzed customer feedback, reviewed support tickets, or talked to customers struggling with loan applications or repayments
Cost-conscious engineering: Experience optimizing for costchoosing cheaper infrastructure, building instead of buying expensive SaaS, batching to reduce compute, caching to reduce database load. You think like a business owner
Simplicity advocate: Portfolio of simple, elegant solutions that delivered massive value. Can point to complex problems you solved with surprisingly simple architectures. Resist over-engineering
Team enablement: Experience coaching and mentoring engineersnot managing them. You've helped teams level up their technical judgment and decision-making autonomy
Cross-functional collaboration: Comfortable working with Product, Credit Risk, Collections, Finance, Compliance, and Operations teams. You translate between technical and business languages fluently

Nice-to-have

AI/LLM engineer: Experience integrating large language models for applications such as customer support chatbots, document processing, or decision assistance
Understanding of financial concepts: Transaction lifecycles, accounting, reconciliation, and settlement
Programming languages: Java, Kotlin, and Python
Frameworks: Spring ecosystem (most backend services are Spring-based)
AWS services: ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3, etc

Our Engineering Principles

Beyond skills, we're looking for someone who embodies these principles:

Simplicity over complexity: The best solution is the simplest one. Complexity is a taxavoid it.

Lean over lavish: Cost-efficient architectures that deliver value. Question every expense.

Pragmatism over perfection: Ship value iteratively. Good enough today beats perfect never.

Outcomes over outputs: Measure success by business impact (loans disbursed, defaults reduced, costs saved), not technical elegance.

Enablement over heroics: Make teams successful. Don't be the lone genius solving every problem.

Learning over knowing: Admit when you don't know. Experiment, fail fast, iterate.

Empathy over ego: Listen more than talk. Respect diverse perspectives. Assume positive intent.

Benefits

Meal and parking allowance are covered by the company
Full benefits and salary rank during probation
Insurances as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family without seniority compulsory
Performance bonus up to 2 months
13th month salary pro-rata
15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave
SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) - we focus on your development
Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture
Overseas travel opportunities for training and working related
Internal Hackathons and company's events (team building, coffee run, blue card...)
Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri

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