Backend Engineer - Marketplace, Promotion

re-zoo-me; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopee's Marketplace Promotion team is seeking a backend engineer to help design and implement scalable features across banners, vouchers, and campaigns.

You will work with engineers across backend, frontend, and QA to deliver high-performance systems with thorough monitoring.

A Bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of backend experience are required, with hands-on in Golang, Python, Java, or C++, and experience with MySQL, Redis, and Kafka.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 1 year in Backend Development.
• Strong logical and analytical thinking.
• Familiar with distributed systems, caching, and concurrency.
• Experience with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and HTTP/REST protocols.

Responsibilities

• Analyze product requirements and feasibility for promotion features.
• Design technical solutions with detailed analysis and documentation.
• Build large-scale distributed systems optimized for performance and availability.
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with team members to deliver projects.

Skills

Backend development

Golang

Python

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

About The Team

Join Shopee's Marketplace Promotion team, a hub of e-commerce innovation! Our dedicated engineers in backend, frontend, and QA drive seamless promotions and elevate the buyer experience. Architects of primary entry points like the Homepage and Banners, we collaborate with the APP team to enhance user traffic efficiency. Steering features like Vouchers, Item Discounts & Flash Sale, Add On Deals & Bundle deals, Shopee Coins, we propel discounts, boost platform traffic, and elevate seller orders. Empowering campaign management with efficient platforms, we redefine marketing efficiency. Shape the e-commerce future with us – your journey of innovation and impact begins here!

Job Description

• Take part in product requirement analysis and feasibility involving various features to support different promotion domains.
• Designing technical solutions for the requirements with detailed analysis and documentation.
• Building large scale distributed systems optimized for performance, availability and scalability with critical monitoring.
• Writing clean, testable, extendable and maintainable code using engineering best practices.
• Be a team player by communicating & collaborating with other team members effectively to deliver the projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Backend Development.
• Strong logical, analytical, and structured thinking skills.
• Strong hand-on experience with one or more of the following commonly used languages such as Golang / Python / Java / C++.
• In depth understanding of the Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Databases and Computer science fundamentals.
• Good understanding of Distributed Systems Fundamentals, Caching Mechanisms, Concurrency.
• Familiar with Data & Web Security (optional).
• Familiar with commonly used Relational Databases, such as MySQL.
• Familiar with commonly used NoSQL storage, such as redis
• Familiar with commonly used distributed event streaming platforms, such as kafka
• Familiar with commonly used network protocols, such as HTTP, TCP, UDP.