Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Microservices

Tentang Anak; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 700,000,000 - 1,100,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tentang Anak, Indonesia’s leading parenting platform, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend architecture, lead complex systems, and mentor a growing team. You will drive performance, reliability, and scalability across monolithic and microservice-based services, while collaborating with product, QA, and operations to align technical outcomes with business goals.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend engineering, deep experience with PHP Laravel, NodeJS, and Golang, and a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in fast-paced product environments.
• Experience building and maintaining microservices architectures and production observability.
• Fluent in PHP (Laravel), NodeJS, and Golang; proficient with MySQL.
• Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcached), search (ElasticSearch), and event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiar with API Gateway, CI/CD, TDD, Docker, Git Flow, and Linux development.
• Able to analyze logs, debug production issues, and balance engineering trade-offs under pressure.
• Strong communication, collaboration across teams, and proactive ownership.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party systems or vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture and development for monolithic and microservices components including APIs and integrations.
• Benchmark, refactor, and improve performance and reliability of core services and data stores.
• Provide technical leadership, review code to high standards, and guide architectural direction.
• Collaborate with PMs, QA, Infra/DevOps to align solutions with business goals and operations.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; participate in hiring and culture-building.

Skills

Backend architecture

Microservices

Performance tuning

Observability

Team leadership

Tools

PHP Laravel

NodeJS

Golang

MySQL

Redis

ElasticSearch

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Git

Linux

Job description

Tentang Anak, Indonesia’s leading parenting platform, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend architecture, lead complex systems, and mentor a growing team. You will drive performance, reliability, and scalability across monolithic and microservice-based services, while collaborating with product, QA, and operations to align technical outcomes with business goals.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend engineering, deep experience with PHP Laravel, NodeJS, and Golang, and a