Ascenda

Software Engineer SG - Internship 2025 (3-6 months) (Copy)

Posted: Oct 30, 2025

Job Description

Ascenda is a global provider of innovative loyalty solutions and operates premium rewards propositions for major financial services and travel brands worldwide. As a trusted partner powering over 70 of the world’s leading rewards programs, Ascenda develops end-to-end solutions to address the most meaningful challenges facing the loyalty industry today. By deeply profiling local market needs to provide the right technology, content and value propositions alongside careful management of marketing, servicing, costs, and fraud, Ascenda delivers highly compelling and beautifully simple plug & play offerings that eliminate the trade-off between cost and customer value.At its heart, Ascenda is an engineering and technology company. Our products and services help many financial services and travel brands serve millions of customers globally better. We take pride in building beautifully designed, performant, easy to use but yet secure products and place a huge emphasis on delivering great code.We're looking to bring in passionate engineers who're keen to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment. You take great pride and your work and feel a great sense of accomplishment in building beautiful products that scale.At Ascenda, we have a huge focus on coaching on mentorship. As an intern, you will be given the correct guidance, mentorship, as well as opportunities for you to grow your career. We value the insights and perspectives you may bring to the company as a new intern and look forward to the diversity you will add to the team.Internship window: Anytime from Nov 2025 onwards (min 3 months commitment). If your university/ school is looking at 6 - 9 month long traineeships, we're open to it too. Please state so in your application to us. Candidates with earlier availability or immediate start dates will be given priority consideration.In This Internship, You Will BeWorking in the rewards content team which is a dynamic group at the forefront of creating exceptional rewards experiences via the enablement of a rich and reliable catalog of high-quality content, we empower our platform to deliver unparalleled value to customers worldwide.Delivering products to customers in a matter of weeks after you join! We believe in giving everyone ownership, including our interns. You will start by owning small pieces of the platform and working your way upWork within one of our platform teams who look at specific areas of Ascenda's platforms (e.g. travel booking, points transfers, our payments, customer engagement platform, or 1 of our core data, platform orchestration teams) to figure out how best to improve our product for our customers through new features and capabilities that will be used globallyAs we grow our users and transaction volumes to reach new markets, our architecture needs to grow too. You’ll help us to make Ascenda's platforms faster, more convenient and scalableLearning about other aspects of software engineering, such as,Security & Compliance - how do we build secure software for financial institutionsScalability - learn how to adapt your code in a way that scalesAscenda OffersFlexible working environmentDiverse and friendly working culture. Members of our team come from over 20 nationalities worldwide!RequirementsWe are looking for someone who is:Passionate and excited about using technology to build great products!Have some experience in at least one backend language (Ruby preferred, but not obligatory)Have some experience in building frontends, either in vanilla JS or using frameworks.A team player, willing to help other developers, share knowledge and care about the product you buildPossess good communication skills, are not afraid of suggesting changes and improvementsA fast learner, able and willing to learn new languages and librariesAble to commit a minimum duration of 3 months full time, with possibility of extension to part-time basis thereafter Candidates must be authorised to work in Singapore.

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