Software Engineer Intern

We’re Building the Future of Capital Markets; enabling entrepreneurship,

job creation, financial inclusion, and economic resilience

As Asia’s largest licensed digital securities exchange for alternative investments, Alta is at the forefront of building critical capital market infrastructure. We believe that access to capital markets is pivotal in all economies, we recognize that our role in building this critical infrastructure goes beyond facilitating trade; it paves the way for entrepreneurship, job creation, financial inclusion, and economic resilience, fostering a brighter future for emerging markets and economies.

Empowering Private Markets: Through our Digital Exchange, we enable the tokenization and digital custody of alternative assets. This end-to-end solution simplifies and expedites the trading of smaller asset blocks, ultimately facilitating access and liquidity in private markets.

Innovative Financial Ecosystem: Our journey has seen us transition from securities trading and distribution of comprehensive products, including equities, private credit, funds, and asset-backed securities (“ABS”) (representing Real World Assets (“RWA”) like whiskies, wines, art, watches, and real estate) to include fund management and digital custody services.

As the only integrated securities exchange, brokerage, and fund management group with the necessary regulatory licenses and a proven track record in Southeast Asia, we are actively exploring new channels and partnerships to extend our impact to entrepreneurs and investors globally.

Established in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, Alta operates offices globally. We welcome energetic and creative individuals to be part of this ambitious journey with us

Job purpose

Internships at Alta are different. You won’t be put on make-work projects or tasks with minimal value to the business. As a Software Engineering Intern at Alta, you will have the opportunity to develop your full-stack software skills working on business-critical product features as a key member of one of our software teams, alongside a team of broadly experienced, supportive engineers.

Our extensive ecosystem spans B2C to B2B, and our stack covers Blockchain, DeFi, API/service-driven architectures, serverless infrastructure, data pipelines, front-end frameworks, and no-code platforms are all key elements of our technological ecosystem that you will be exposed to.

As with all engineers in our teams, your job doesn’t stop at writing code. You’ll be a key technical stakeholder in our feature planning process, helping to map complex business requirements to technical solutions and offering your ideas and opinions. We build quickly but carefully – the security and privacy of our investors and partners are paramount, so you’ll be keeping this front of mind throughout all of the work that you do.

We’re a supportive, social, and entrepreneurial team of former investment bankers, technologists, and strategists. Clear, honest communication is key to everything we do.

The sorts of things you’ll be doing:

• Working on one or more of our technical teams as a key contributor to our code base
• Participating in code reviews within and outside of your team to help continuously improve the quality of our code
• In close conjunction with your manager and mentors, proactively set and monitor progress toward your development goals
• Having the opportunity to own your deliverables, working with business stakeholders and peers on your team from planning through to release
• Contributing to the continued development of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• In consultation with our Data team, evolve the data schemas that underpin our business processes
• Adding to our automated testing framework
• Taking part in regular security testing
• Keeping up to date with the latest in tooling and industry best practices, ensuring that we’re constantly discussing, evaluating, and implementing the best
• Expressing your ideas, opinions, and feedback on our tech stack, tooling, and culture to ensure we’re always improving as a technology team and as a company
• As our Software Engineering intern, we know you’ll be doing significant learning on the job.

That said, we’re hoping from Day 1 you’ll bring:

• Good knowledge of at least one object-oriented and/or functional programming language. We have JavaScript/Node, Python, GoLang, Rails, and others in our ecosystem stack but we’re not too picky with what you’ve used before
• Some experience with source control systems like Github or Bitbucket, and how they work within a team
• Basic knowledge of relational databases, and how they differ from non-relational ones
• The basic principles of APIs
• Beyond the technology, we also hope you’ve got some interest in:
• Financial services, particularly the investment space
• An appreciation for experimentation and designing systems/processes that accommodate business and technical agility

Food! We talk about it a lot 🙂

As a close-knit, social team we generally prefer to work together in person at one of our offices. That said, we provide a flexible working environment that is adaptable to periods of working from home.

Thanks for reading. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Team Alta