Junior Product Engineer

Summary: We are looking for a visionary Product Engineer that is passionate about using AI for product development. They must have a strong foundation in backend engineering, capable of building and integrating frontend systems, backend systems, customer service portals, and operations portals using AI tools. In this role, you will be at the forefront of adopting an AI-first approach to product development, continually challenging existing workflows and foundational engineering principles, while engaging in rapid experimentation to enhance value delivery to customers. This is an exciting opportunity for those passionate about product development and AI-driven workflows.

Top 5 Reasons Why We Are the Next Destination for Your Career

• Innovation-Driven Environment: Work with state-of-the-art technologies, including Serverless AWS, AI-driven engineering, Java, and Python
• Impactful Work: Shape products that enhance financial inclusivity and access in emerging markets
• Collaborative Culture: Join a forward-thinking team that values innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive package, professional growth opportunities, and a balanced work-life environment
• Learning and Growth: Access SMART goals, technical seminars, conferences, and training to support your career advancement

Key Responsibilities:

• Take the lead with AI-first adoption, leveraging AI tools and prompt engineering skills to automate work wherever possible so that we can improve time-to-value
• "Question the requirements", to get to the essence of what is actually needed, ensuring that we are building the right things right
• Collaborate with a new, AI-first product development team where you'll be at the heart of building and scaling innovative enterprise financial products, driving meaningful impact from day one
• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, designing systems to satisfy customers and validating assumptions with data driven insights
• Innovate like a startup—lead the charge from concept to deployment, continuously testing, learning, and improving your product with every iteration
• Embrace the full product lifecycle; prioritise it, define it, design it, build it, test it, run it and own it

Requirements Must-have skills

• At least 2 years of backend engineering experience, particularly Java
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including designing and deploying scalable systems, working with core services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), and building cloud-native architectures
• Experience with agentic coding (e.g., building or working with AI-driven/automated coding systems)
• System Architecture Design: Understanding of system architecture principles, with experience contributing to technical solutions and implementation decisions
• AI Tools: Proficient with Claude Code, or other autonomous capable coding agent. Comfortable integrating AI tools into the development workflow
• Product-obsessed: You live and breathe product thinking—you're not just here to generate code, but to own the product and drive its success. You focus on solving customer problems and delivering experiences that make a difference
• Customer focused: You can talk to directly customers or subject matter experts and ask questions to deeply understand their needs so that you can deliver products that resonate
• Creative problem-solver: You tackle complex challenges with creativity and an analytical mindset, always balancing technical decisions with business outcomes
• Adaptability & hustle: You thrive in an ever-evolving environment, where you can wear many hats, pivot quickly, and move fast without losing focus on the big picture
• Team player with an edge: You bring a strong collaborative spirit to an AI-first team, and you're ready to take ownership of assigned features and contribute proactively to team initiatives
• Fluent in English: You're a smooth communicator, capable of turning technical jargon into easy-to-understand ideas for both teammates and stakeholders
• Automation lover: You believe in the power of automated testing frameworks to build robust and reliable systems
• Love for Learning: You love learning new domains of knowledge and technologies so that you can build better products faster. You know there is always more to learn and are always open to being wrong
• Early Adopter: You have already built a few simple apps with AI tools, experimented with mcp servers and are familiar with prompt/context engineering

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of System Thinking
• Experience with Behaviour Driven Development
• Avid Reader

Benefits At GotymeX, opportunities are here for the taking. If you want to be part of our purpose and live and lead through our values, we can offer exciting development opportunities through expanded lateral roles, stretch assignments, or people leadership.

Some of our benefits:

• Meal and parking allowances are covered by the company
• Full benefits and salary rank during probation
• Insurances such as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family
• 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 work-related
• Internal Hackathons and company events (team building, coffee run, etc.)
• Pro-Rate and performance bonus
• 15-day annual + 3-day sick leave per year from the company
• Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri