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What they do

Coda helps publishers of games and other digital content sell to users outside app stores. Its B2B products include Codapay, Coda Webstore, Coda Links, and Giftcloud. It also runs consumer stores, such as Codashop and Recharge.com, for game top-ups, gift cards, and prepaid products in over 70 markets. Over 300 publishers use it. It has served publishers since 2011.

What they value

• Ownership of work and outcomes.
• Bias for action: be bold, act fast, and accept change.
• Excellence: raise the bar in everything.
• Collaboration: work, laugh, and win as one team.
• Integrity: transparency, honesty, and accountability.
• Respect and support for each other.

Where they hire

The board has 13 roles. Four are in Singapore and four are in Bangkok. Two are in Amsterdam. One each is in Shanghai, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur. No role is remote. All roles but one are hybrid, and an IT role in Bangkok is on site. No posting mentions visa sponsorship or the right to work.

Teams and roles

Engineering has four roles. Three are in Bangkok: a backend software engineer at all levels, a software engineering manager for 6 to 12 engineers, and a technical lead for 3 to 6 engineers. In Amsterdam, a team lead runs the mobile app team for Recharge. The engineering teams build distributed systems on AWS, with new microservices in the Quarkus framework.

• Commercial: business development managers in Singapore for Southeast Asia, and in Shanghai for China. They win new enterprise customers.
• Support: a customer support specialist in Manila, and an implementation specialist in Kuala Lumpur who helps merchants connect to the Coda API.
• Corporate: a tax manager, a data analyst, and a communications manager in Singapore, and a legal counsel in Amsterdam.
• Corporate IT in Bangkok: an engineer who runs Okta, Google Workspace, and device management.

The Manila role pays PHP 26,000 to 28,000 a month. The Kuala Lumpur role pays MYR 6,000 to 7,000 a month.

What they look for

Engineering roles ask for strong knowledge of data systems, such as relational databases, NoSQL, and message queues. The backend role asks for two or more years and one or more languages, such as Java, Go, Kotlin, or Python. The manager role asks for five or more years as an engineer and two or more years as a lead. The mobile team lead asks for 10 or more years, and for iOS, Android, and React Native. Most engineering roles ask for AWS or list it as a bonus.

Many roles ask for a local language with English: Tagalog in Manila, Mandarin in Kuala Lumpur, Thai for the IT role, and Dutch for the legal role. The business development roles ask for six or more years of enterprise B2B sales in payments or SaaS. The data analyst role asks for five or more years, SQL, dbt, and Python. Several roles ask for use of AI tools in daily work.