Backend Software Engineer

Agensi Pekerjaan Primeworq Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; In loco; MYR 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Our Kuala Lumpur-based client is building a cloud-native backend team from the ground up to develop scalable Go services for international clients. You will contribute to API design, data models, and scalable architectures while embracing CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of production backend experience on cloud platforms, strong Go skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Couchbase. A CS/SE degree is preferred.

Competenze

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred, equivalent experience considered.
• 3+ years building and running production backend systems on cloud platforms.
• Strong Go production experience for backend services.
• Experience with high-throughput systems and throughput measurement.

Mansioni

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go.
• Design distributed, event-driven services that scale horizontally.
• Optimization of performance, concurrency, and resource usage.
• Deploy containerised services on AWS using Kubernetes.

Conoscenze

Go programming

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Couchbase

REST APIs

CI/CD

Testing

Formazione

CS/SE degree

Strumenti

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins

Descrizione del lavoro

Our client is a Kuala Lumpur based cloud technology company that builds software for international clients. They are setting up a new engineering team for a greenfield project, and are hiring several backend engineers to build it from the ground up.

Key responsibilities

Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go.

Design event-driven, distributed services that scale horizontally and deploy independently.

Find and fix performance bottlenecks, concurrency issues and resource limits.

Deploy and run containerised services on AWS using Kubernetes.

Set up autoscaling, health checks and recovery so services handle changing traffic.

Use infrastructure as code and automated deployments.

Build asynchronous pipelines with Apache Kafka, handling retries, duplicates, ordering and failures.

Design and tune relational database schemas, queries and indexes.

Write well-tested code with unit, integration and end-to-end tests.

Add logging, metrics, tracing and alerts to the services you build.

About you

At least 3 years building and running production backend systems on AWS or a similar cloud-native platform.

Strong hands-on Go for production backend work.

Experience with services handling thousands of transactions per second, and able to explain how throughput was measured.

Hands-on horizontal and dynamic scaling of production workloads.

Deploying and running applications on Kubernetes.

Practical Kafka experience: producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups and failure handling.

Relational and NoSQL databases, specifically Couchbase, including data modelling, indexing and performance tuning.

Solid grasp of RESTful APIs, concurrency and distributed systems.

Automated testing, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines.

A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field is preferred. Equivalent experience is also considered.