Back End Engineer (Marketplace Order Operations) - Sea Labs

Sea; Jakarta Utara; On-site; IDR 260,000,000 - 380,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sea Labs Indonesia, part of Sea's e-commerce platform ecosystem, is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Marketplace Order Operations team. You will help power Shopee's order features, focusing on return and refund and clearing and settlement systems, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and QA.

The role emphasizes building distributed, high-performance services with clean code, testing, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong backend server development experience.
• Proficiency in languages such as Golang, Python, C++, or Java.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, networking, and OS fundamentals.
• Experience with MySQL and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Redis and Kafka.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes microservices architecture.
• Familiar with HTTP/TCP protocols and Protocol Buffers.

Responsibilities

• Realize business goals by implementing features for Shopee as a platform, including returns/refunds and clearing/settlement.
• Design and build distributed systems optimized for performance, availability, and user experience.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with best practices (tests, CI, automation).
• Research and execute projects to enhance system functionality and middleware.

Skills

Backend development

Golang

Python

Java

C++

Data Structures

Networking

OS fundamentals

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Microservices

HTTP/TCP

Protocol Buffers

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Team:

About Sea Labs Indonesia

Sea Labs is at the core of the Sea platforms development, supporting diverse business lines from e-commerce, supply chain, games, payment and finance, among many others. The strong growth and unique positioning of Sea's e-commerce business, Shopee, spurred the launch of Sea Labs Indonesia. Since its inception, the group of passionate engineers have charted the course to drive the best experience for our users in Indonesia, many of which solutions are even adapted to other markets in the region. Sea's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience world-class projects first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do. Together with our passionate and driven teams, you'll get to develop your skills, build on industry knowledge and collaborate with global teams in a dynamic space. Browse our Sea Labs Indonesia team openings to see how you can make an impact with us.

About The Team

The Marketplace Order Operations team powers the critical order related features of Shopee as a platform through innovation and technology. In our pursuit to shape the way buyers and sellers connect with each other, we engineer scalable, reliable and extensible systems that evolve with the dynamic e-commerce landscape. As a Software Engineer in the team, you will collaborate with fellow Engineers and Product Managers to develop the return and refund and clearing and settlement systems, and tackle unique problems on a global scale.

Job Description:

• Realizing business goals through implementing features to Shopee as a platform, including but not limited to return and refund, and clearing and settlement
• Designing and building distributed systems optimized for performance, availability, and user experience
• Writing high-quality, clean, and maintainable code and respecting engineering best practices (unit testing, source control, continuous integration, automation, design patterns, etc.)
• Researching, proposing and executing projects to enhance system functionalities, development processes, and shared middlewares
• Collaborating in a highly cross-functional environment with fellow Software Engineers, Product Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Operation Engineers to deliver impact

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or a higher degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Relevant experience in backend server development
• Familiar with commonly used languages, such as Golang / Python / C++ / Java
• In-depth understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms, Networking, OS and other Computer Science fundamentals
• Familiar with commonly used Databases, such as MySQL
• Familiar with commonly used middlewares, such as Redis and Kafka
• Familiar with Kubernetes (K8S) Microservice Architecture
• Familiar with HTTP/TCP protocols
• Familiar with XML/JSON/Protocol Buffers
• Familiar with distributed systems, performance tuning, massive concurrency handling, and caching mechanisms