Company Overview:

UBX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unionbank of the Philippines. UnionBank is a top 10 universal bank in the Philippines by assets, with annual revenues of over PHP 25 Billion. UnionBank is a leader in digital financial services and has been recognized as the top digital bank in the Philippines by Asiamoney and IDC. UnionBank has established UBX to build on its leadership in digital: UBX facilitates UnionBank’s exploration and creation of new, digital and potentially non-banking business models.

UBX’s mission includes investments in financial technology (fintech) companies and other ventures whose capabilities complement UBX’s platform development. UBX is developing platforms that embed financial services into customer and business experiences. This results in financial services that are accessible to a broader community – physically, logically and economically. UBX invests to positively and materially impact financial inclusion.

Truly innovative financial technology should make banking perfectly transparent in the lives of consumers and businesses. When we talk about banking today, we still talk about accounts, lines of credit and cash management services. Banking still distracts and interrupts. Our ultimate goal: banking that becomes invisible, banking vanishes into our lives and businesses. This is why we are particularly focused on ecosystems: can we participate in and build the platforms where we can seamlessly embed banking in the context of experiences for consumers and businesses.

Our Customers:

Ecosystems are built on platforms that support multi-participant markets and multi-point transactions. Therefore, from an ecosystem development perspective, our customers are the participants in these ecosystems.

This can be made clearer by way of example. For the financial services platform, the resulting ecosystem has the following participants:

• Financial institutions such as rural bank and non-bank financial institutions (coops, lenders, etc.)
• Customers of these financial institutions
• Financial service providers that leverage the platform such as lenders and insurers
• Technology providers that build solutions on top of the platform

Junior Software Engineer

The role is hands-on and requires a solid background in designing and building web applications. Success in this role will be measured based on customer feedback and the following metrics:

• User stories developed
• Skills improvement and learning potential
• Quality of software developed

Objectives and Responsibilities

• Software Developer day-to-day: As a software developer, you are responsible for:
• Designing, building and developing software applications for UBX customers
• collaborating and contributing to cross-functional teams that develop solutions for clients
• participating in the architecture and system design of mobile applications
• being a part of an open environment where everyone is expected to speak up and collaborate in project and organizational decisions
• maintain code integrity and organization
• supply sufficient documentation on software developed
• API and backend integration
• Product Development, Design & Maintenance: As a development resource, you will be coordinating with the different product development teams to ensure that:
• user stories and other agreed requirements are delivered on-time and on-budget;
• evaluate issues/bugs reported and provide root-cause analysis, impact analysis and recommend solutions and workarounds in coordination with the development team, and product owner;
• automated testing to ensure code robustness including edge-cases usability and general reliability
• Be up-to-date with the latest developments, standards, and benchmarks for web applications development
• Participate in various informational sessions and workshops as a participant or instructor upon request
• Contribute in the success of UBX: As a key resource to the success of the company, you are expected to do other responsibilities as determined by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology or a year of relevant experience. Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Knowledgeable in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, SQL and/or mobile development
• Knowledgeable in back-end programming languages (Ex: Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)
• Knowledgeable in using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, etc.
• Development experience for both mobile-responsive and desktop web applications
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and organizational skills
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability working in a fast pace software development environment
• Ability to analyze a wide range of complex software problems, then recommend solutions.
• Must be flexible and able to work to deadlines

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