Senior Software Engineer, Backend

GXBank; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GXBank is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our backend engineering team as we build the digital backbone for customer experiences. You will design, develop, deploy, and monitor robust backend services using Go, Redis, MySQL, and AWS, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across the platform.

You will work closely with application and infrastructure teams, participate in code reviews, and help shape the technical roadmap.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field with strong fundamentals.
• 3–7 years in software engineering in distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in languages; willingness to work with Go (Golang).

Responsibilities

• Design and write Go backend to improve availability, scalability, and latency.
• Explore architectures for scale and performance with engineering teams.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold standards.
• Engage in capacity planning, performance analysis, and tuning.
• Collaborate with product/experience teams to prototype features.
• Work with infrastructure to scale services and perform root cause analyses.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems.
• Debug production software.

Skills

Strong CS fundamentals

Excellent communication

Analytical abilities

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/IT

Tools

Go/Golang

Redis

MySQL

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

AWS

GitHub

Job description

The backend engineering team develops the digital backbone of the bank that drive all user experiences. They create robust, scalable, and secure backend systems. They are responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring all backend services in production. The team develops and maintains a strategic technology roadmap and ensures the application team implements best practices to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and availability of our systems. The team works very closely with the all the application development teams to ensure that all solutions are aligned with the business and technical requirements, and to enhance the overall quality and performance of the systems

Get to know the Role:

• We are seeking talented & passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our team.
• You will have opportunities to work on multiple backend service clusters as well as participating in machine learning pipelines. It is very important that our team member take initiatives to identify problems, and have the right mindset and skill sets to solve them.

The day-to-day activities/Responsibilities:

• Design and write with the cutting edge GO language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Digibank’s range of services
• Work with engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work closely with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale systems
• Debug and modify complex, production software

The must haves/Qualificiations:

• A Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields with strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 3-7 years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C# etc.), but willing to work on Golang
• Our core services tech stack consists of Golang with Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch data stores as well as HAProxy load balancers. They all run on the AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling abilities.
• We use GitHub for our code repository and we adhere to the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include Travis CI, New Relic, PullReview, Code Climate, Papertrail, Gemnasium, JFrog and Jenkins.