Senior Software Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment

Kuala Lumpur

On-site

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A global recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Kuala Lumpur for a contract role. You will be responsible for developing user-centric software, leading technical projects, and mentoring team members. Proficiency in AWS technologies and modern engineering practices is required, along with at least 8 years of relevant experience. The role offers a chance to work in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Qualifications

Proven ability in building and deploying modern software solutions.
Experience in a business-critical environment and cloud services.
Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

Plan and lead technical initiatives.
Build, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions.
Champion a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

Proficiency in building and maintaining software

Cloud computing and microservices architecture

Experience with AWS services

CI/CD practices

Technical leadership

Developing Apollo GraphQL servers

8+ years of relevant working experience

Job description

Salt is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer for a 10 months & extendable contract role for one of the global employment marketplace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You will develop software in a product & platform subdomain, contribute to engineering quality, coach and mentor other software engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable, and scalable solutions.

Key accountabilities:

Plan & lead technical initiatives within the team, providing clarity and support for other software engineers to deliver solutions that are fit for purpose.
Build, test, deploy, and maintain quality software from development to production, with clean, secure, and well-tested code that adheres to best current practices.
Champion a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, ensuring systems are built and run in compliant, efficient, reliable, and resilient manner.
Role model effective incident management & resolution through a combination of deep domain expertise and technical troubleshooting ability.
Collaborate effectively and empathetically with peers and stakeholders, providing space for diverse opinions and feedback.
Foster a positive team environment, contributing to the safety, work-life balance, and wellbeing of team members.
Mentor new hires and support the growth of team members.

Qualifications : Essential skills & experience

Modern engineering practice: Proficiency in building and maintaining software in a build-run team context using two or more modern programming languages. Experience with data modelling, design patterns, and uplifting team engineering culture.
Cloud & distributed computing: Proficiency in design considerations and failure scenarios for distributed computing. Experience with microservice architectures that mix synchronous (HTTP server) and asynchronous (background worker) components in a cloud environment.
AWS technologies: Experience in a business-critical environment using AWS services, including DynamoDB, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, RDS (Aurora PostgreSQL), SNS, and SQS.
CI/CD & observability: Demonstrated ability to apply and improve continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting to uphold software reliability and performance.
Technical leadership: Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives, empowering other engineers by balancing support and autonomy, and providing a long-term view of the technical direction of software systems.
Proficiency in developing Apollo GraphQL servers
At least 8+ years of relevant working experience

CEI No: R1659595 / EA No: 07C314

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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