Senior Back-end Engineer

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch); Makati; Hybrid; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer in Makati City. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding core applications' technical direction and coordinating with product and delivery teams. Four days on-site and one day WFH weekly.

You will mentor developers, own technical decisions, and drive reliability and performance while aligning with business outcomes and modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software development teams.
• Strong knowledge of backend and frontend architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership across backend and frontend technologies to deliver scalable solutions.
• Define and enforce software architecture principles for modular, secure systems.
• Lead and mentor development teams, fostering growth and engineering excellence.
• Own key technical decisions and drive coding standards.
• Ensure high-quality delivery through code reviews, testing, and automation pipelines.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, QA/DevOps to align priorities.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and advocate modern engineering practices.

Skills

Team Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Problem Solving

Tools

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Vue.js

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP)

WebSockets

Elasticsearch

Algolia

Redis/Memcached

Testing (Cypress/Jest/Playwright)

Job description

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Senior Back‑end Engineer

Location: Makati City, Manila

This position requires 4 days on-site /1-day WFH per week

Job Description

The Senior Back‑end Engineer is responsible for guiding the technical direction of core applications, combining hands‑on engineering expertise with leadership responsibilities. This role ensures that architecture, design, and delivery standards drive scalability, performance, and quality. The Lead Software Engineer mentors developers, owns critical technical decisions, and partners with product and delivery leaders to align execution with business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership Provide hands‑on expertise across backend and frontend technologies, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Architecture & Design Define and enforce software architecture principles, ensuring systems are modular, secure, and maintainable.
• Team Mentorship Lead and mentor development teams, fostering growth, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Technical Ownership Own key technical decisions, set coding standards, and drive best practices across the engineering organization.
• Quality & Delivery Ensure high‑quality code through reviews, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines; champion automation and reliability.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration Partner with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and QA/DevOps teams to align technical execution with roadmap priorities.
• Innovation & Improvement Stay current with emerging technologies, propose improvements, and drive adoption of modern engineering practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Solid hands‑on experience with:
  • Node.js (modern versions, including v22+ and v24)
  • PostgreSQL (v15 or equivalent)
  • Vue.js (Vue 3)
• Proven experience leading and mentoring software development teams.
• Strong grasp of software architecture principles (modularity, scalability, clean design).
• Ability to own technical decisions and drive quality standards across projects.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business stakeholders.
• Nice to Have
• Experience with caching technologies (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
• Experience with search and indexing solutions (e.g., Algolia, Elasticsearch, Solr).
• Familiarity with real‑time communication frameworks (e.g., TalkJS, WebSockets).
• Exposure to testing frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Jest).
• Experience with containerization and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Knowledge of cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Background in performance optimization and scaling distributed systems.

Additional information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://theapexgroup.com/csr-policy/

Personal data provided by job applicant(s) will be used for recruitment purposes only and will be treated strictly confidential. Such personal data can be accessed by different Apex stakeholders within and out of China for the consideration of the job application hereunder. Application made by the job applicant(s) constitutes the irrevocable consent of the job applicant for her/his personal data to be used by Apex stakeholders within or outside China for the purpose of this recruitment.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.