Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable, Secure, Obs-Driven

XSOLLA KL SDN. BHD.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A company in the technology sector seeks a backend developer to build and maintain secure, scalable systems. You will manage the full implementation cycle, refactor legacy code, and improve technical processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality code and contribute to architectural decisions. Ideal candidates should be experienced in backend development and able to enhance the developer experience through technical improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
• Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability, security, and performance.
• Participate in architectural discussions and provide informed technical input.
• Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity.
• Drive production readiness by managing incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements.
• Write clear, testable, and well-documented code, emphasizing quality and automation.
• Contribute to code reviews and design discussions, promoting engineering excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers to align on objectives and deliverables.
• Contribute to technical scoping and estimation for features and infrastructure work.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, continuously improving the developer experience.

Job description

A company in the technology sector seeks a backend developer to build and maintain secure, scalable systems. You will manage the full implementation cycle, refactor legacy code, and improve technical processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality code and contribute to architectural decisions. Ideal candidates should be experienced in backend development and able to enhance the developer experience through technical improvements.