Senior Software Engineer

Who we are:

Digital Edge DC (Digital Edge) is an emerging data center platform company, established to transform digital infrastructure in Asia. We seek to build the foundation for the world’s digital future, helping organizations to grow sustainably and empowering the populations they serve.

Through building and operating state-of-the-art, energy-efficient data centers rich with connectivity options, we aim to bring new colocation and interconnect options to the Asian market, making infrastructure deployment in the region easy, efficient, and economical. Backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, Digital Edge has in excess of US$1 billion in committed capital.

Founded in 2020, the company has grown rapidly across multiple markets in the region, and this role is an exciting opportunity to join the team as we further expand our footprint across Asia.

Our values:

• Respect: We embrace diversity and collaboration.
• Innovation: We share ideas and solve problems.  
• Grit: We are driven and determined.
• Excellence: We seek to deliver the best.   
• Responsibility: We do what’s right for our people and the planet.

What we need:

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Technology and Innovation, this role will focus on implementing functions and features in the roadmap for our customer and operation portals.  This involves working closely with product and operation stakeholders on documenting functional details as well as the UX.  This engineer will work with the development manager, project manager and other developers on creating project plans and breakdown tasks and implementing the assigned features.  He/She will document the design, develop codes, perform tests, and keep project manager up to date with progress. This role will be based in Hong Kong.

Key responsibilities: 

• Work closely with development, product and marketing managers on documenting feature details and UX.
• Work with UI designers to ensure consistent UX, responsiveness, and simple-to-use.
• Collaborate closely with architects and developers on web application design and implementation.
• Implement functions and features with detailed documentation and good coding practices.
• Implement APIs to extract data from the data lake and 3rd party application.
• Apply CI/CD with test automation.
• Actively champion and implement policies and procedures for occupational health & safety in the workplace, information security management, environmental management systems; incident management; and comply with all legal regulatory requirements of the organization

The successful candidate:

• Master or Bachelor degree in Computer Science
• 8+ years of web application development experience
• 5+ years of experience on NodeJS, Python, SQL, NoSQL and in-memory DBs
• 3+ years of API integration experience
• 3+ years of experience on AWS, Azure and/or GCP