AI-Driven Backend Engineer: APIs & Data Pipelines

RUNJIAN (M) SDN. BHD.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RUNJIAN (M) SDN. BHD. is hiring Backend Engineers to build AI-enabled backend APIs and data services for energy and education products. You will work within a two-engineer framework, handling data access pipelines from customer systems like SCADA and EMS, and collaborating with AI coding tools daily.

You will ship modular, tested code, design APIs, and integrate with enterprise systems, while maintaining code quality amid human and AI contributors. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience shipping real products.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java; solid database and REST API skills.
• Experience integrating third-party or industrial systems (SCADA, IoT platforms, enterprise APIs) is a plus.
• Practical use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) in your own workflow, or strong willingness to adopt them as your daily driver.
• Good testing habits and a code-review mindset — quality matters more when AI generates part of the code.
• Clear communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Product Feature Development: Implement backend product features end to end within the team’s architecture, coding standards, and review gates.
• APIs & Business Logic: Design and build APIs, business logic, and service integrations for AI agent products, intelligent reporting, and workflow tools.
• Customer Data Access: Build pipelines and connectors for SCADA, EMS, inverter monitoring, and enterprise systems, with validation and monitoring.
• AI-Assisted Development: Use AI coding tools daily. Drive and review AI coding agents’ output against team standards; flag and fix quality issues before they ship.
• Quality & Maintainability: Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and keep the codebase healthy as multiple humans and AI agents work in it concurrently.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with the Product Manager on requirements, the delivery team on field issues, and China headquarters teams on source product logic.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Python

TypeScript

Java

REST APIs

APIs integration

Tools

Cursor

Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

RUNJIAN (M) SDN. BHD. is hiring Backend Engineers to build AI-enabled backend APIs and data services for energy and education products. You will work within a two-engineer framework, handling data access pipelines from customer systems like SCADA and EMS, and collaborating with AI coding tools daily.

You will ship modular, tested code, design APIs, and integrate with enterprise systems, while maintaining code quality amid human and AI contributors. English proficiency is required.