Staff Data Protection Platform Engineering Lead

-; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global energy company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Kuala Lumpur. The successful candidate will take on a key leadership role, guiding a collaborative and high-performing team while developing robust software solutions. With over 5 years of full-stack development experience, expert knowledge in TypeScript, C#, and Python is essential. The role offers a hybrid work environment, ensuring flexibility and work-life balance, and includes a focus on mentoring junior engineers and fostering team growth.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Health insurance

Life insurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience.
• Strong coding skills in TypeScript, C#, and Python.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Solid grasp of front-end technologies with a focus on responsive design.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex software components and scalable solutions.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery ensuring high-quality code.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster continuous improvement.

Skills

TypeScript

C#

Python

RESTful APIs

GraphQL APIs

HTML

CSS

JavaScript frameworks

AWS

Azure

GCP

relational databases

NoSQL databases

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll play a key leadership role-both technically and as a mentor. You'll guide and support your team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. In this role, you'll help shape goals, prioritize initiatives, and ensure successful delivery in a product-led, empowered team structure. You'll be a trusted technical advisor, collaborating across functions to build robust and scalable systems.

Become a part of a high-performing, collaborative team of engineers, working alongside industry-leading technologists to define the future of compute and data platforms. We're tackling real-world challenges with cutting-edge solutions that drive meaningful impact across our organization.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop complex software components, services, and scalable solutions.
• Author and review architecture and design documents, incorporating peer feedback effectively.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring high-quality code, thorough testing, and seamless deployment.
• Integrate systems across distributed platforms and shared APIs, ensuring resilience and reusability.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and data science teams to align technology with business needs.
• Identify and implement compliance controls, and support audits (e.g., security, licensing, regulatory).
• Mentor junior engineers, share best practices, and foster continuous improvement across the team.
• Contribute to development frameworks, perform code reviews, and help establish engineering standards.
• Communicate project status, technical decisions, and changes to cross-functional stakeholders.

What You'll Bring

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field-or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years of full-stack development experience, with proficiency across front-end and back-end systems.
• Strong coding skills in TypeScript, C#, and Python.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Solid grasp of front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks, with a focus on responsive design and accessibility.
• Cloud-native development experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficient with both relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and performance tuning.
• Strong system design skills, capable of architecting secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Experience (Desirable):

• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence, align teams, and explain complex ideas clearly.
• Confident in navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems with practical, scalable solutions.
• Self-motivated and adaptable-thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments with minimal supervision.
• Committed to continuous learning and fostering growth within the team.
• Open to exploring and adopting new tools, frameworks, and workflows.

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.