Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Lead Software Engineer role stands out in a SaaS-adjacent fintech environment where product reliability and release discipline are as important as feature delivery. The remit spans building and optimizing reusable components, integrating third‑party APIs, and coordinating with infrastructure and release functions—work that maps closely to how subscription platforms keep customer-facing services stable while shipping frequent updates.
For a SaaS career, the role offers sustained exposure to the operational realities behind “always-on” products: performance impact analysis, production deployments, and collaboration across QA, databases, and build/release. The mix of legacy code repair alongside new module delivery is also a common pattern in mature SaaS systems, building transferable judgment around incremental modernization, risk management, and scalability trade-offs.
This position is best suited to an engineer who prefers end-to-end ownership and is comfortable moving between code, environments, and deployment processes. It will fit someone at a stage where influencing engineering practices matters—reviewing changes for system impact, creating shared libraries, and helping teams ship with fewer regressions—while still remaining hands-on with implementation.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos’ lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation! G ka ba? Join the G Nation today!
Who you’ll be working with:
If you have a strong background in IT, computer science, or software engineering, and are analytical, technologically savvy, solutions and process-focused, then the Technology & Operations team may be for you!
You will be responsible for the following:
Responsible for the delivery of assigned modules / tasks. Code, test and troubleshoot software programs utilizing the appropriate hardware, database, and programming technology.
Provides assistance to QA as needed to diagnose system problems and to review/repair legacy code if required.
Review changes in code and the environment to understand and minimize negative impact on system performance.
Work closely with the infrastructure, build and release, database, and other related teams to ensure swift and efficient deployment of code releases to live (production) environments.
Build reusable components, templates, code and libraries. Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
We’re looking for:
Minimum of 5 years experience in software development. Must come from a technical background with the ability to read and write source code across multiple languages.
Worked on cloud and on-premise server environment, integration technologies.
Developed common third-party APIs such as google, Facebook and other web services (ie, REST, SOAP/WSDL). Developed systems in Java, MySQL, Apache, NGinx, HaProxy, Javascript, JQuery, HTML5 and CSS3
Experience in the open source environments which include Linux (Ubuntu/Red hat), MySQL and Java.Worked on Amazon Web Service , SES, SMTP, Linux OS, Cron
Exposure to DevOps tools such as Docker and automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Kubernetes would be advantageous
What We Offer
Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game A company that values their people with highly competitive and flexible compensation and benefits package
