Senior Backend Engineer - AI-First Systems Leader

Carousell; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mudah.my Sdn. Bhd in Malaysia seeks a seasoned software engineering leader to guide technical design and drive AI-first practices. You will shape scalable systems, mentor engineers, and push for high-quality, reliable software across teams.

The role emphasizes agentic workflows, collaboration with data teams, and advancing engineering maturity in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. Strong ownership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with ownership of systems or products.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed, production-grade applications.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering practices across a team.
• Strong interest in Generative AI, AI agents, agentic workflows, and AI-first engineering practices.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and/or AI agents as part of day-to-day software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and implementation of scalable, maintainable software systems.
• Apply strong software design principles, design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture to engineering solutions.
• Make sound technical decisions and provide clear direction to engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Review architecture, technical designs, and code to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Identify technical debt and drive initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Champion AI-first software development practices across the engineering team.
• Understand and apply agentic workflows, including the use of AI agents for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and engineering automation.
• Experiment with and introduce new AI tools, agents, and workflows that improve engineering productivity and quality.
• Guide engineers in effectively working with AI rather than simply using AI as a coding assistant.
• Help establish best practices around prompting, context engineering, agent orchestration, validation, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Contribute to building reusable AI skills, agents, and engineering workflows for the wider organisation.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development, testing, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Conduct code and design reviews and ensure adherence to agreed engineering standards.
• Encourage CI/CD, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive continuous improvements in development processes and engineering productivity.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow their technical capabilities.
• Coach team members on software design, coding standards, system thinking, and engineering best practices.
• Create a culture of knowledge sharing, ownership, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Provide technical guidance while enabling engineers to make independent decisions.
• Help raise the overall engineering maturity and quality bar of the team.
• Database and data engineering experience is an added advantage.

Skills

Software architecture

SOLID principles

Design patterns

Clean architecture

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Analytical skills

AI-first engineering

Generative AI

Agentic workflows

Tools

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Mudah.my Sdn. Bhd in Malaysia seeks a seasoned software engineering leader to guide technical design and drive AI-first practices. You will shape scalable systems, mentor engineers, and push for high-quality, reliable software across teams.

The role emphasizes agentic workflows, collaboration with data teams, and advancing engineering maturity in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. Strong ownership and communication are essential.