Backend Engineer - Digital Bank Team

SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and optimize digital banking backend services and platforms, delivering high-quality, secure code for scalable systems.

You will deeply understand business needs, collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams, translate requirements into technical designs, and push for performance, reliability, and security in high-concurrency environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/IT/AI.
• At least 1 year full-time backend development in C++ or Python.
• Experience with agentic AI or Harness Engineering.
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networks, OS.
• Experience with databases and middleware (MySQL, Redis, Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Participate in design, development, and optimization of backend services and platforms.
• Contribute to server-side architecture for high-performance, scalable systems.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and scalable features.
• Optimize performance, stability, and resource use in high-concurrency banking scenarios.
• Design internal developer tools, automation scripts, and workflows.
• Explore AI technologies and their banking applications.

Skills

Backend development

C++

Python

Agentic AI

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/AI

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Team

We aspire to make banking simple for everyone. Our digital banking services provide secure, stable, and easy-to-use banking products such as savings, payments, loans, investments and more to individuals and enterprises. Our Digital Bank Technology teams build and operate technology platforms and systems that are at the foundation of the banking services.

Backend Engineer will fully leverage our technical expertise to transform business requirements into tangible digital banking products which will directly serve our end users. We need to actively participate in the overall design of the digital banking solution, delivering a high-performance, highly secure backend system.

Job Description

• Participate in the design, development, and continuous optimization of digital banking backend services and technical platforms, delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Contribute to server-side architecture design to build high-performance, highly available, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Deeply understand business requirements, collaborating with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical designs and scalable features.
• Continuously optimize system performance, stability, resource utilization, and user experience for high-concurrency banking scenarios.
• Design and develop internal developer tools, automation scripts, and workflows to boost R&D efficiency and engineering quality.
• Explore emerging AI technologies (e.g., LLMs, AI Agents, AIGC) and evaluate their applications in banking business scenarios and intelligent R&D practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding methodologies (e.g., Vibe Coding / AI copilots) to streamline code generation, testing, and delivery processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence or any related fields.
• At least 1 year full time backend development experience using C++ or Python.
• Experienced in agentic AI or Harness Engineering.
• Solid foundation in Computer Science core principles, including Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Networks, and Operating Systems.
• Hands-on experience or working knowledge of databases (e.g., MySQL) and middleware (e.g., Redis, Kafka, microservices/K8s).
• Related domain experience in the Fin-Tech is strongly preferred.