Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Based in Singapore, the Senior Backend Engineer is responsible in designing, developing and maintaining the cloud application stack for Screening Eagle and Proceq tools – ensuring resilience and robustness of the services.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the backend tasks and work closely with the development teams.


• Strategic choice of data structure and algorithms to design and implement the business logic.


• Develop, test, document and deploy web APIs, batch jobs, webhooks, or integrations based on the business requirements.


• Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for testability


• Continuously document design decisions.


• Adopt best devops/tech-ops practices and make continuous automated testing, releases and deployments.


• Offer mentorship to junior developers in the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experiences.


• Possess strong programming skills, solid data structure and algorithm fundamentals.


• Possess strong system design and architecting skills with distributed systems.


• At least 2 years’ experience with AWS/GCP services and related cloud technologies.


• At least 4 years of practical backend development for real-world products in any language/framework, preferably in Go.


• Experience in SQL databases, writing schemas and designing high performance queries.


• Experience in in-memory key-value database like Redis.


• Deep technical understanding of scalability, resilience, high availability and the corresponding architecture, technologies and designs.


• Experience with devops/techops, like Jenkins gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform.


• Experience in Containerization and Orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.


• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.


• Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies continuously.