IT Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, you design, develop and operate scalable, high-quality solutions. You combine deep technical expertise with strong conceptual thinking to shape Hilti’s software engineering direction and cloud capabilities that form the backbone of Hilti’s digital infrastructure. Beyond hands-on development, you inspire and mentor colleagues, foster collaboration across global stakeholders, and ensure alignment between long-term vision, engineering practices, and business outcomes.

What You'll do

You will be a part of our forward looking, international Cloud Development Platform DevSecOps team shaping Hilti’s cloud and AI capabilities of tomorrow. You take end-to-end ownership by designing, developing and operating high-quality platform services that build the backbone of Hilti’s software offering. Leading by example, you drive continuous improvement, manage technical debt and operational risks proactively as well as optimize the cloud system for scalability and performance. In addition, you are acting as a technical mentor to other team members and ensure consistency across engineering standards, DevSecOps best practices, actual implementations and contribute to the AWS cloud software engineering community.

What You’ll Bring

To help you succeed, we’ll provide you with everything you need so that we’re driving impact together from day one. You’ll find a stable working environment, exceptional support, learning and development, and a great team around you. Here’s what you’ll need to bring with you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or in similar fields – Master/PhD is a bonus (CGPA > 3.0 or similar grading is a must)

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of ownership in cross-functional teams, excellent communication skills, and a strong focus on continuous learning, technical curiosity, mentoring and driving high-impact engineering outcomes.

• Deep expertise in modern Java (17+) including concurrency, multithreading, reactive programming, build tools (Gradle/Maven lifecycle), and design principles (SOLID), with experience in performance tuning, JVM optimization and troubleshooting.

• Proven hands-on experience with Spring Boot ecosystem (Security, WebFlux, Data/MyBatis), strong understanding of Spring internals (beans, AOP, request handling, serialization), and API design using REST and OpenAPI.

• Strong experience designing and operating microservices on AWS using ECS, DynamoDB and Aurora, with solid knowledge of event-driven systems and services such as SQS, SNS, EventBus and Lambdas, combined with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Strong experience in modern testing approaches (e.g., RestAssured, TestContainers, WireMock, Localstack) and a solid understanding of cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence in enterprise environments.

• Excellent analytical capabilities, ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders, highly committed, self-driven, and customer oriented.

What’s In It for You

We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:

• Work alongside colleagues from multiple nationalities in a vibrant, fast growing regional hub.

• Access to global mobility opportunities and international project exposure.

• A caring, collaborative culture built on integrity, trust, wellbeing, and high performance, proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® 2025.

• Structured learning programs, cross functional exposure, and fast-tracked career pathways through Hilti Asia Learning & Development.

• Opportunities to work on regional and global initiatives that accelerate your growth.

• Modern, flexible work environment in Kuala Lumpur, including hybrid working options (varies by role).

• Comprehensive medical coverage, wellness activities, sports groups, CSR and volunteer initiatives, and regular engagement events.

• Attractive compensation, performance-based rewards, and employee discounts including access to Hilti tools.

• Strong commitment to sustainability and community impact through various initiatives and programs.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

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