Software Engineer - Backend

Shopback-2; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 200,000,000 - 420,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Be part of a winning team

Competitive compensation

Collaborative culture

Job summary

ShopBack Indonesia is looking for an experienced software engineer to contribute to the design and delivery of scalable web services. You will work closely with product, data, and design teams to take ideas from concept to production.

You will lead and mentor others while delivering high-quality software using NodeJS/Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native tools. This role emphasizes strong architectural thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consumer-facing web app development
• Experience designing complex distributed systems
• Hands-on with NodeJS (preferred)
• Experience deploying to cloud (AWS highly desired)
• Strong web services design for scalability
• Experience using Generative AI tools to improve workflows

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver large-scale projects
• Contribute to ideation, design, implementation and testing of features
• Build high-quality, scalable APIs and services
• Collaborate with product, data and design to shape ShopBack experience
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Promote engineering best practices
• Analyze requirements and propose trade-offs

Skills

Leadership

Agile mindset

Mentoring

Tools

NodeJS

AWS

Kubernetes

Postgres

Kafka

SQS

GitLab

Jenkins

Prometheus

DataDog

Redshift

Spark

S3

Slack

JIRA

Confluence

Knative

Debezium

Kafka Connect

Job description

Our Journey

The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 20 million active members across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$900 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout.

Your Adventure Ahead

• You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects.
• Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features
• Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable
• Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services
• Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience
• Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers.
• Encourages others to follow engineering best practices.
• Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs.

Essentials to Succeed

• At least 3 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications
• Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
• Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred)
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired)
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
• Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility

Technologies We Use & Love

• Cloud: AWS
• Infra: Kubernetes
• Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python
• Relational database: Postgres
• Message queue: Kafka, SQS
• Continuous Integration: Gitlab / Jenkins
• Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog
• Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
• Communication: Slack
• Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
• Other technologies:
• Knative Eventing / Serving
• Debezium + Kafka Connect

ShopBacker Traits

• Agency - We take ownership and act, rather than waiting for permission. When something's blocking progress, we find a way through it and follow through until it's done.
• Judgement- We aim for high-impact decisions, not just easy wins, and we put the bigger picture ahead of individual interests. That means moving quickly and confidently, while staying thoughtful about when a call really matters.
• Learning Velocity - We pick up new skills fast and let go of old habits just as quickly when something better comes along. We benchmark ourselves against the best and keep raising our own bar.
• Tenacity - We stay in it when things get hard, keeping a level head under pressure. We debate openly before deciding, then commit fully — and support each other along the way.

What's in it for ShopBackers

• Career growth opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
• Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale.
• Competitive compensation based on performance.
• Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued.