Staff Engineer - Platform Architect & Tech Leader

AirAsia Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental Medical Staff discount for Flys

Job summary

AirAsia MOVE in Kuala Lumpur seeks a hands-on Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence and own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. You will design and operate highly available, scalable systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with engineering leadership.

You will help shape team culture, make architectural trade-offs with confidence, and solve complex problems under tight deadlines. We require 8–14 years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight and review designs for services, APIs, and data flows.
• Make informed trade-offs between performance, reliability, and speed to market.
• Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices.
• Mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence.
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure backend services (Java, Spring Boot, Nodejs, Golang).
• Ensure services meet high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency requirements.
• Embed observability tools with OpenTelemetry into platform design.
• Drive platform engineering, developer productivity tools, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh implementations.
• Experience in defining standards for coding, reliability, scalability, AI developer productivity.
• Ensure services adhere to security, compliance, and data-privacy standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Team leadership

Code quality

DevOps

Security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

Golang

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

React

React Native

Flutter

OAuth2

OIDC

Kafka

GCP PubSub

Istio

Linkerd

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

AirAsia MOVE in Kuala Lumpur seeks a hands-on Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence and own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. You will design and operate highly available, scalable systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with engineering leadership.

You will help shape team culture, make architectural trade-offs with confidence, and solve complex problems under tight deadlines. We require 8–14 years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in a