Staff Backend Engineer — Hybrid, Growth & Impact

Ajaib Group; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 500,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Private health insurance

Paid time off

Learning & Development

Hybrid work arrangement

Career growth

Employee perks

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Ajaib Group is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in Shared Services to establish technical direction for backend systems across Growth, Onboarding and Shared Experience. You will solve cross-team challenges and stay hands-on where it matters most.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable services and collaborate with product, ops and architecture in a fintech environment that values reliability and performance. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical work across teams and raise engineering excellence.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Go.
• Experience with Kafka and Redis; relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction and architecture for backend systems spanning multiple teams within the investor journey.
• Lead the design of scalable, fault-tolerant and secure services and review critical designs from other teams.
• Identify technical risks, trade-offs and drive decisions aligned with business goals.
• Lead investigations and root cause analysis for production incidents and drive improvements.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, security and performance.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and grow technical leadership across the team.
• Stay hands-on with critical components and complex problems.

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

GCP

AWS

Job description

Ajaib Group is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in Shared Services to establish technical direction for backend systems across Growth, Onboarding and Shared Experience. You will solve cross-team challenges and stay hands-on where it matters most.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable services and collaborate with product, ops and architecture in a fintech environment that values reliability and performance. Hybrid work arrangement offered.