Remote Staff Backend Platform Engineer

Ajaib Group; Jakarta Pusat; Remote; IDR 900,000,000 - 1,300,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonus

Private Insurance

Paid Time Off

Learning & Development

Hybrid Work Arrangement

Career Growth

Employee Perks

Collaborative & High‑Ownership Culture

Job summary

Ajaib Group is hiring a Staff Engineer (Backend) to set the technical direction for the shared foundations that power all products. You will shepherd identity, core services, API standards, observability and developer tooling across autonomous teams while remaining hands-on where it matters.

You will design scalable, secure backend platforms, lead migrations, and mentor engineers in a fintech environment, working with a global remote team and impacting how millions of customers access financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record designing and running platform or shared services
• Proficiency in Java, Go or another modern backend language
• Strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, multi-tenant design and observability
• Deep knowledge of authentication/authorization (Keycloak/Ory Stack, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS) and secure system design
• Experience with Kafka, Redis and relational/NoSQL databases, including query tuning and data consistency
• Cloud and Kubernetes experience (GCP/AWS) and containerized deployments
• Product mindset toward internal users; strong communication; fintech/regulatory experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction and architecture for platform systems spanning multiple teams
• Lead scalable, secure, multi-tenant service design and review critical team designs
• Set API and contract standards: versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation and documentation
• Lead identity and access architecture: authentication, authorization, token handling and service-to-service security
• Design for reliability: SLAs, rate limiting, isolation, graceful degradation and disaster recovery
• Build golden paths: templates, shared libraries, CI/CD standards and observability defaults
• Plan and lead large migrations with clear timelines and tooling
• Identify risks and weigh trade-offs to fit business and regulatory needs
• Lead incident investigations and drive lasting improvements
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Product, Security, Infrastructure and Architecture on cross-team initiatives
• Mentor Senior Engineers and grow technical leadership
• Stay hands-on with critical components and complex problems

Skills

Java

Go

Microservices

Observability

Security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

Ajaib Group is hiring a Staff Engineer (Backend) to set the technical direction for the shared foundations that power all products. You will shepherd identity, core services, API standards, observability and developer tooling across autonomous teams while remaining hands-on where it matters.

You will design scalable, secure backend platforms, lead migrations, and mentor engineers in a fintech environment, working with a global remote team and impacting how millions of customers access financial