Backend Staff Engineer

Amazon; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Malaysia is looking for a Software Engineering Team Leader to oversee a diverse team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will design systems leveraging AWS and Ruby, advocating for best practices in software development while mentoring fellow engineers. This role demands a proactive leader comfortable with uncertainty and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with AWS native applications and deployment.
• Understanding of web-scale architecture and database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Leading a diverse software engineering team.
• Designing and operating scalable and secure solutions.
• Growing engineers' skills through coaching and mentoring.

Skills

Ruby

AWS

Continuous delivery

Database technologies

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Leading a diverse software engineering team.
• Improving how we build, deploy, and maintain working quality software.
• Designing and operating highly scalable, available, performant, and secure solutions.
• Operating in a distributed team environment.
• Growing engineers' personal and technical skills through coaching and mentoring.
• Influences and motivates others, with a positive attitude and clear sense of initiative.
• Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning.
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty.
• Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions.
• Pragmatic, open-minded collaborator with a growth mindset.
• Clear communicator who is able to manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate groups, and resolve conflicts.
• Focuses on outcomes over outputs.
• Builds trust, safety, and inclusion in teams.

Requirements:

• Solid experience building and maintaining software written in Ruby / Ruby on Rails.
• Design, develop, support, t and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications.
• Experience developing systems which effectively use AWS services and infrastructure as code (e. g. CDK, Cloudformation, Lambda, etc. )
• Experience with multiple database technologies, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Solid understanding of highly available systems and web-scale architecture.
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite or TeamCity.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming.
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities.
• Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns & amp; tooling.
• Uses data to drive decision-making.
• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies.
• Comfortable with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.