Backend Engineer, Marketplace Buyer (2025 Graduate)

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopee Singapore Private Limited is seeking skilled backend engineers to design, develop, and maintain scalable services that power the marketplace. You will work with product teams, contribute to technical designs, and implement robust solutions for high-traffic systems.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong CS fundamentals, and the ability to perform under pressure in a fast-growing environment, with opportunities to tackle challenging technical problems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Familiar with at least one backend programming language such as Java, Python, Golang or C++.
• Strong in logical thinking and problem solving, actively seeking challenges.
• Strong ownership, good communication skills, teamwork spirit, and ability to work independently under pressure.
• Passionate about coding, innovation, and solving challenging problems.
• In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services.
• Collaborate with the product team and provide technical inputs to support product decision making.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to the end solution.
• Execute and implement technical designs.
• Troubleshoot issues related to business logic or performance.

Skills

Java

Python

Golang

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Linux

Git

Job description

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

About the Team:

The Marketplace Buyer team maintains services that empower the core e-commerce business of Shopee. Its scope spans across buyer and seller facing features, covering the entire journey from account registration to order fulfillment. As one of the most critical pillars of the Shopee ecosystem, the Marketplace Buyer team owns systems that serve hundreds of millions of users across the globe and handle millions of transactions on a daily basis. Being built with modern architecture and in a distributed environment, these mission-critical services receive high traffic, require high performance, and deliver high impact to the business. As the owner of these services, we constantly work on solving interesting and challenging problems to deliver a better and smoother shopping experience to customers worldwide.

Job Description:

• Design, develop and maintain backend services
• Collaborate with the product team and provide technical inputs to support product decision making
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to the end solution
• Execute and implement technical designs
• Troubleshoot issues related to business logic or performance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
• Familiar with at least one backend programming language such as Java, Python, Golang or C++
• Strong in logical thinking and problem solving skills, actively seeking challenges
• Strong ownership, good communication skills, having teamwork spirit and capable of working independently under pressure
• Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems
• In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc)

Good To Have

• Hands-on experience with Golang
• Familiar with Linux operating system
• Familiar with relational databases such as MySQL
• Exposure to performance tuning of high load systems