Innovate with Experts
Our goal is to unlock value by fusing world class expertise and experience, not just to minimise cost and avoid failure. At our core, we are passionate about solving the challenge of creating innovative and reliable financial services that benefit both clients and consumers.
Our culture
What matters to us
We’ve built an organisation anchored on ikigai beliefs – having a sense of purpose in life, that’s both personal and professional. We believe what we do and how we do it makes a difference in peoples’ lives. That’s something we’re passionate about and important to every member of the Ikigai Digital team.
Our values shape our identity and the culture at Ikigai Digital. It’s both our operating system and what we stand for. We couldn’t call ourselves Ikigai Digital without having our own Ikigai.
The thing we value most, is working with talented people in a highly creative and productive way to deliver outstanding results to our clients. That’s why we focus on people over process and why we are trying to create an All Stars Team. Of course, any growing business requires some process and structure but with our people-first approach, we want to be more flexible so you can just focus on getting things done.
What makes Ikigai special is how much we:
- Encourage decision making by employees
- Share information openly, broadly and deliberately
- Communicate candidly and directly
- Hire highly effective people
- Avoid rules wherever possible
Living your Ikigai
Ikigai is a concept that combines the Japanese terms iki, meaning “life,” and gai, meaning “worth”, so when combined, these terms mean your life’s worth or purpose. Ikigai refers to doing; what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs and what you can be paid for. We are serious about helping you discover and lead your life of purpose, that’s why we named the company Ikigai Digital.
Ocean’s Eleven
It takes a whole host of expertise and different roles to deliver the best digital banks. You name it, from strategy to engineering, to customer facing and backend architecture. Every engagement with our clients is like forming an Ocean’s Eleven team. We don’t care for Prima Donnas but if you want to work as part of an elite unit to deliver the best digital banks in the world, Ikigai Digital is the right place for you.
Work, your way
We are a globally distributed company with Ikigai’ers in 11 countries and clients across the globe. This lets us hire the best talent regardless of where you are. Steve Jobs couldn’t have said it better “We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”. We offer high levels of autonomy and independence to do your best work because we trust you to deliver on your promises and to work in the best way to unleash your unique value to enhance the team.
Our values
📝Accountability
🏆Mastery
💬Radical Candour
Benefits
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Compensation
- Top payers
- Company bonus
- Fair and open to discussion
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Vacation
- 25 days of paid vacation plus public holidays per year
- Flexible to ask for more paid days
- Work from anywhere
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Health & Wellbeing
- Health insurance
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Perks
- $2000 training budget
- High spec work gear
- Yearly company retreat
Candidate journey
Transparent from start to finish
You’ve discovered Ikigai Digital
This might be via a job posting, through LinkedIn, a referral or perhaps through a recruiter but whatever the method might have been, you’ve now discovered us! Please remember, job specs only say so much though and we would always encourage you to find out more, in the stages below.
Exploratory video call with our People & Talent team
We will schedule a video call with you to learn more about (10-30 minutes); your past experiences & skill set, what you’re looking for, what we’re looking for and we can answer any initial questions you may have as well as discussing things like salary and your notice period.
Technical Video Interview
In this interview, you’ll spend ~45 minutes on a video call with 1 or 2 engineers in the same or similar role to you. We’ll discuss in more depth your experience and skill set and no doubt exchange similar stories and challenges you’ve faced in your work before. You’ll have the chance to learn more about the job and us. This stage is a conversation and should be really enjoyable. You won’t be asked to write any code but you should be prepared to discuss technical topics. The point of this interview is to work out if you are suitable for the company and role and then are we interviewing you for the right position (perhaps you’re better suited to another role) and also for us to work out what we should assess further in the next stage.
Live Technical Challenge
In this second Technical Video Interview, Frontend / Backend / Architects will carry out a live technical task. We tailor this challenge to your skill set and the role you’re best suited for, so if you are a Frontend or Backend Engineer it will be an online pair programming challenge and if you’re an Architect we will ask you to prepare a solution for a Solution Design topic. This will be a challenge/task that you would expect to be doing as part of your job. If you are a Platform Engineer it will be a technical deep dive interview without a live challenge.
Meet the Founders
We feel that as an early stage startup, it’s really important that you meet at least 1 of the 3 founders as they are very much hands on leaders in the company and you’ll more than likely work with them. This will be a conversational interview where they can get to know you and you can ask some questions perhaps related to the business as a whole.
Offer
If after reviewing all the feedback and we think you’d make a great addition to Ikigai Digital, then the People & Talent team will look to make you an offer! Your point of contact will have been in discussions with you throughout the process, so by this stage the talks should be relatively simple and not come as a shock. The offer would be discussed over a call/video call and then an offer letter would be sent to you afterwards.
What our employees think
We continuously listen to our employees to understand where there might be opportunities to further enhance the way we work as a company and as individuals. Have a look at our Pulse Survey responses below, we don’t hide anything.
Favorable
Unfavorable
Neutral
Well-being
I feel Ikigai respects my work life balance
Pride
I feel a sense of pride working at Ikigai
Physiological Safety
I feel I won't be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes
Senior Leadership
I trust the leadership team to take the correct decisions on behalf of Ikigai
Management
I can trust my manager to have my best interests in mind
Alignment
I can see the relationship between what I do and the overall mission and priorities of Ikigai
Solutions
Media
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