Yu Ma

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Director of Engineering at Corvid Technologies · Payments infrastructure

Corvid Technologies
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
12+ years experience
University of Indonesia
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Corvid Technologies, focused on payments infrastructure. Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 25 engineers. Most at home with Kafka and gRPC. Board member at a local non-profit.

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gRPCdistributed systemsKafkaidempotency
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Building out payments platform at Corvid Technologies: backend engineers wanted in Singapore

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$183k-$239k + equity
Team
Payments platform, 15 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with gRPC Production experience with Kafka Clear written communication
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp S$145k-S$235k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Singapore · remote OKidempotencydistributed systemsgrpc
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Corvid Technologies · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Moved 85% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 17 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  2. Backend Engineer
    May 2021 - Jan 2025
    Rakuten · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 780ms to 124ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 19 a week to 4.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2018 - May 2021
    Lenovo · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Moved 79% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 29 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
    DBS Bank · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 3 million transactions a day.
    • Shipped 16 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
    Toyota · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Took payment success rates from 95.7% to 96.9%.

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Education

  1. University of Indonesia
    BSc, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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