Back End Engineer (ShopeePay) - Sea Labs Jakarta Engineering and Technology

Monee; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 200,880,000 - 401,760,000; Full time

Job summary

Monee is hiring an Backend Engineer in Jakarta to design and develop backend services for its digital payments platform. You will collaborate with product managers, designers and operations engineers to deliver robust, scalable features across Shopee ecosystem.

The role emphasizes strong coding skills, problem solving, and ownership of backend components, with a focus on performance and security in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OS and networks.
• Proficiency in Go, Python or Java and MySQL.
• Familiar with Linux development and multi-threading.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services and platforms for products.
• Write clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
• Build common libraries and reusable components.
• Analyze requirements and implement features per product needs.
• Optimize performance, stability and user experience.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and ops.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

MySQL

Linux

Networking

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Entry Level

Location Jakarta

Department Engineering and Technology

Monee is a leading digital payments and financial services provider in Southeast Asia, with a growing presence in Latin America. Its mission is to better the lives of individuals and businesses in the region with financial services through technology.

Monee delivers a comprehensive range of digital financial products and services, including mobile wallets, payment processing, credit, banking, and insurtech. By leveraging technology and strategic partnerships, Monee aims to drive greater digital financial inclusion, convenience, and accessibility for individuals and small businesses across Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Monee is part of Sea Limited, a global technology company.

About the team:

About the Team

The Payment team, best known for their flagship product: ShopeePay, aims to develop a mature, world-class payment platform connecting individuals and businesses within Shopee ecosystem. Beyond ShopeePay, the Team also connects with a large number of local financial institutions to serve billions of Shopee and SeaMoney users across the different markets.

Together, we aim to reach the forefront of cashless payment technology by providing a more accessible, secure and reliable payment network that empowers individuals as well as micro, small and medium enterprises around the globe.

Job Description:

As a Back End Engineer, you will work with some of the most talented minds in the world, collaborating with fellow Developers, Product Managers, User Experience Designers and Operation Engineers to build user-centric, business-critical functionalities that delight both internal businesses and external end-users. Your main responsibility includes (but not limited to):

• Design and development of backend services, systems, or platforms used by our products and our user
• Write high-quality, clean, elegant, and maintainable code
• Build common libraries
• Analyse requirements, design, and develop functionalities based on the product requirements
• Understand the product thoroughly, constantly optimise the product, identify and fix problems, improve stability and user experience
• Design and implement various supporting tools as needed
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, user experience designers, and operations engineers to build features and products

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related fields
• 4+ years of experience in backend development
• Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems
• In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc)
• Strong and hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages such as Go, Python, Java
• Hands-on experience and knowledge in relational databases such as MySQL
• Strong logical thinking abilities
• Familiar with Linux development environments and multi-threaded programming
• Familiar with common network protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP) and network programming
• Experience in server/web security
• Hands-on experience in Web Service frameworks and technologies such as Golang