Backend Engineer - Digital Banking Platform

SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; 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. You will work on high-performance, secure systems in a fast-paced fintech environment.

You will collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable technical designs, while leveraging AI technologies to improve development and R&D workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence or related fields.
• At least 1 year full-time backend development experience using C++ or Python.
• Experience with agentic AI or Harness Engineering.
• Solid foundation in CS principles: data structures, algorithms, networks, OS.
• Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL) and middleware (Redis, Kafka, microservices/K8s).
• FinTech domain experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize digital banking backend services and technical platforms, delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Contribute to server-side architecture design to build high-performance, available, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Deeply understand business requirements, collaborating with Product Managers to translate needs into technical designs.
• Continuously optimize system performance, stability, and resource utilization for high-concurrency scenarios.
• Design and develop internal developer tools, automation scripts, and workflows to boost R&D efficiency.
• Explore emerging AI technologies and evaluate their applications in banking and R&D practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding methodologies to streamline code generation, testing, and delivery processes.

Skills

Backend development

C++/Python

Agentic AI

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT/AI or related fields

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and optimize digital banking backend services and platforms. You will work on high-performance, secure systems in a fast-paced fintech environment.

You will collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable technical designs, while leveraging AI technologies to improve development and R&D workflows.