Backend Engineering Lead

AEON Bank; Kampung Malaysia Tambahan; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

AEON Bank is seeking a visionary Backend Platform Lead to take full ownership of the backend services powering our digital banking platform. You will ensure transactions are fast, reliable, and secure, acting as guardian of platform health and security.

You will mentor a high-performing team, codify best practices, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver a seamless user experience. This role demands leadership in scalable microservices and secure coding.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with modern architecture and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Champion backend development best practices across the engineering function.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to enhance the digital banking UX.
• Contribute from design to deployment.
• Establish code reviews and documentation processes.
• Mentor backend engineers for performance and security.
• Monitor health of services and reliability of backend platform.
• Design scalable, secure microservices for enterprise-scale backend.

Skills

Backend architecture & design

REST API design

Microservices

CI/CD pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Security best practices (OWASP)

Agile / Lean startup

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

We are seeking a visionary and results-driven leader to take full ownership of the backend services powering our digital banking platform. This critical role is the cornerstone of our user experience, ensuring that every transaction and interaction is seamless, fast, and secure. You will be the principal guardian of platform reliability, performance, and security, directly enabling digital banking experience for our customers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Being the champion of all backend development best practices across the Engineering function
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to create the best digital banking user experience
• Participate in the development process from definition to deployment
• Codify best practices in the form of reusable patterns, templates, and codebases and raise the bar for the whole team on quality and speed
• Build highly scalable and secure microservices for the digital bank to realise its vision of being the most efficient and secure digital banking platform
• Write the best code in terms of application performance and security
• Establish process for code reviews and technical documentation
• Mentor the team for both professional and personal development
• Monitor and manage the application health of services under the care of your team
• Design, evaluate, and communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Job Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related fields
• At least 7 years of software development or related experience
• Proven experience in software development using modern software architecture and design pattern
• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres)
• Experience with microservice architecture and domain-driven design
• Experience with Agile methodology or similar lean startup approach to building software
• Strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining REST API
• Familiarity with Docker/Container, Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Github Actions, Gitlab CI)
• Understand and implement secure coding best practices; familiarity with OWASP Top 10
• Familiarity with modern cloud service provider such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• An entrepreneurial attitude with ability to work in a fast paced, flexible environment on multiple concurrent projects
• An ideal candidate for this role will have established experience in managing a sizable, high performing backend engineers skilled in highly scalable, complex microservices on an enterprise level