Backend Engineer

Offgamers; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A thriving tech company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a passionate backend engineer to build highly scalable serverless applications. The role involves developing REST API services, collaborating on architectural decisions, and migrating a monolith application to microservices. The ideal candidate has strong AWS and database expertise and a passion for writing maintainable code. This position offers an energetic startup environment with opportunities for ownership from design to deployment.

Qualifications

• Experience building API-driven / Serverless apps.
• Strong technical capability to develop from modern UI component to API-driven back-end.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Build & consume REST API services in an AWS environment.
• Draft architectural decisions together with the Tech Lead.
• Migrate existing monolith PHP application to serverless microservices.

Skills

REST API services

AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)

Python

Node.js

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Git

TDD

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

GitLab

Job description

We are seeking backend engineer who is passionate about building highly scalable serverless apps with creative thinking and innovation. You will be working with state-of-the-arts tech stack running on AWS.This role will work closely with business owners, Business Development Team, UI/UX Team, QA and DevOp Team.You love to learn as you go and can pick things up quickly. You have experience building API-driven / Serverless apps. You have strong technical capability to develop from modern UI component to API driven back-end code that can scale to power rapidly expanding and evolving marketplace platforms.If you are finding a team with passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly scalable microservices while having fun together, we are your destination. This position is based in the G2G Kuala Lumpur office.

• Build & consuming REST API services (with the ability to create services preferred) in an AWS environment (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB)
• Draft architectural decisions together with the Tech Lead and explore new technologies
• Have a direct impact on team processes by regular agile retrospectives
• Work well in teams, respecting and welcoming ideas from partners, business stakeholders, and technical experts
• You will have involvement and ownership from product ideation, design, development, to production deployment, support and maintenance
• Proposing solution alternatives, analyzing tradeoffs and making high impact product and engineering decisions
• You will be working on migrating existing monolith PHP application to serverless microservice apps and implementing improvements and new features to our various VueJS singlepage applications
• You have strong expertise with MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Aurora and DynamoDB NOSQL databases
• Strong expertise in building backend services and APIs using Python or NodeJs
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and web services technology
• Version control with Git (Gitlab)
• Solid background in building complex customer-facing products coming along with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the codebase in check
• Experience with Test Driven Deployment (TDD) and CI/CD tools
• Operational experience with Public cloud deployments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• Comfort with dynamic startup environments where change is constant and there is a to be largely self-guided on complex problems
• Attention to detail and high degree of individual ownership
• Ability to set realistic deadlines and meet them
• We are looking for someone who is a self-starter and can take any task and own it from start to finish

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