Senior Software Engineer (Payments & Ledgers)

About Olea:

Olea is a digital infrastructure platform that connects global liquidity with trade and supply chain opportunities, fueling growth and unlocking potential worldwide.  Olea has diverse liquidity pools with varying appetite and focuses.  Olea’s vision is to connect capital to opportunity. It has a strong conviction in the role of trade to support sustainable economic development across countries, particularly emerging markets, particularly Asia where many smaller suppliers are based. Olea supports suppliers and buyers in over 70 corridors.

Role summary:  

Olea is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with aspirations of having deep business impact by delivering across the entire software development lifecycle—from understanding complex business requirements to delivering highly available results in a production environment. In this role, you will experience both front-end and back-end development, champion agile methodologies, and pioneer the adoption of AI-native engineering workflows with robust structural guardrails. 

 

Responsibilities:  

• End-to-End Delivery: Understand complex financial business requirements and deliver high-quality, scalable technology solutions to meet those needs. Take proactive ownership across the full SDLC—from requirements gathering to development, automated testing, and release. 

• Domain Innovation: Design, build, and optimize core financial features, focusing on trade finance workflows, payment rails, real-time ledger generation, and automated reconciliation systems. 

• AI-Assisted Engineering & Guardrails: Lead the adoption of AI-generated software development processes (using tools like LLM-based coding assistants) while implementing and enforcing appropriate guardrails—including rigorous code reviews, automated unit/integration testing, security linting, and compliance checks to ensure code quality and safety. 

• Problem Solving: When problems happen in both business and technology, proactively offer innovative solutions and take absolute responsibility for delivering them. 

• Leadership & Mentorship: Guide, mentor, and pair-program with junior engineers to uplift technical capabilities and ensure engineering best practices across the team. 

• DevOps Culture: Support and continuously improve Agile/DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure efficiency within the organization. 

 

 

Role specific technical competencies:  

• Strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 

• Full stack developer capability. 

• Ability to program in Java or JavaScript (or alternatives such as TypeScript), preferably both. 

• Core Software Engineering: Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, software design patterns, and algorithms. 

• Full Stack Capability: Proven experience building clean, responsive user interfaces as well as secure, high-throughput, and scalable backend services. 

• Tech Stack: Proficiency in programming in Java or JavaScript / TypeScript (preferably both). 

• Financial Services Expertise: Deep domain knowledge in Financial Services is required, specifically with hands-on experience in: 

• Trade Finance & Payments: Processing cross-border/domestic payments, clearing systems, and supply chain finance workflows. 

• Ledger & Reconciliation: Designing transaction ledger systems (immutable or double-entry accounting models) and automated reconciliation pipelines. 

• AI-Native Workflow Familiarity: Experience leveraging AI coding environments or enterprise AI assistants effectively to accelerate delivery velocity without compromising on code security, architectural integrity, or compliance. 

 

 

Qualifications (training, licences, memberships and certifications):  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar quantitative/engineering discipline. 

• Extensive experience in a senior or lead engineering role, ideally within Fintech, Banking, or transactional financial platforms. 

 

Note:

Olea is committed to diversity and inclusion. By providing equal opportunities we foster a work environment which embraces diversity and gets the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain business performance and competitive advantage. We build an inclusive culture by demonstrating respect for each other’s unique strengths and perspectives to enable every employee to develop a sense of belonging and have the opportunity to maximise their potential.