AI-Driven Backend Architect | Lead Systems & Growth

Mudah.my; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mudah.my, part of the Carousell Group, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead scalable engineering initiatives in a fast-paced, AI-driven environment in Kuala Lumpur. You will own system design, guide teams, and champion clean architecture, SOLID principles, and robust API design.

You will mentor engineers, drive AI-first workflows, and improve CI/CD, observability, and production reliability. This role blends technical leadership with hands-on coding to deliver high-impact products that

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of systems or products.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Experience designing and building scalable, distributed, production-grade applications.
• Strong understanding of API design, system integration, testing, CI/CD, and cloud-based systems.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering practices across a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of scalable, maintainable software systems.
• Apply design principles, SOLID, patterns, and clean architecture to engineering solutions.
• Make sound technical decisions and provide clear direction to engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Review architecture, technical designs, and code to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Identify technical debt and drive initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Champion AI-first software development practices across the engineering team.
• Understand and apply agentic workflows, including AI agents for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and automation.
• Experiment with and introduce new AI tools, agents, and workflows that improve engineering productivity.
• Guide engineers in effectively working with AI rather than using AI as a coding assistant.
• Help establish best practices around prompting, context engineering, agent orchestration, validation, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Contribute to building reusable AI skills, agents, and engineering workflows for the wider organisation.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development, testing, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Conduct code and design reviews and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
• Encourage CI/CD, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive continuous improvements in development processes and engineering productivity.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow their technical capabilities.
• Coach team members on software design, coding standards, system thinking, and engineering best practices.
• Create a culture of knowledge sharing, ownership, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Skills

Software design

SOLID principles

Design patterns

Clean architecture

Programming fundamentals

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD

Cloud computing

Mentoring

Problem-solving

Tools

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Mudah.my, part of the Carousell Group, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead scalable engineering initiatives in a fast-paced, AI-driven environment in Kuala Lumpur. You will own system design, guide teams, and champion clean architecture, SOLID principles, and robust API design.

You will mentor engineers, drive AI-first workflows, and improve CI/CD, observability, and production reliability. This role blends technical leadership with hands-on coding to deliver high-impact products that