Backend Engineer - Shopee Tech Services (2027 Graduate)

Shopee; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopee is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build gateway services with high performance and reliability. You will contribute to unified data access layers, service frameworks, and internal libraries that accelerate backend evolution toward a unified architecture.

You will create high-quality SDKs and explore new technologies to improve engineering efficiency and developer experience. Collaboration with multiple tech teams will drive analysis, scalability, and sustainable management of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Strong coding and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with at least one language: Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and build gateway services with high performance and reliability.
• Build technical products including unified data access layer, service frameworks, common libraries and practices for backend teams to accelerate the tech stack evolution towards a unified backend architecture.
• Create high-quality software development kits, explore innovative technologies and practices to improve engineering efficiency and development experience.
• Collaborate with other Tech Teams to implement company-level solutions for analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources and managing services sustainably.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Linux

TCP/HTTP networking

Job description

About The Team

Shopee will be prioritizing applicants who have a

do not require Shopee sponsorship of a visa.

Kindly note that you can only be

considered for jobs in the order that you have applied.

As a Tech Platform team, the Shopee Tech Services team supports Shopee’s business growth by providing reliable and sustainable technical products and solutions. The team builds common services, frameworks, libraries and practices that promote the unification of backend architecture, improve engineering efficiency and ensure that the development for all marketplace backend services are smooth, stable and aligned.

Shopee will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Shopee sponsorship of a visa.

Kindly note that you can only considered in one recruitment process at a time within Sea Group and will be considered for jobs in the order that you have applied.

As a Tech Platform team, the Shopee Tech Services team supports Shopee’s business growth by providing reliable and sustainable technical products and solutions. The team builds common services, frameworks, libraries and practices that promote the unification of backend architecture, improve engineering efficiency and ensure that the development for all marketplace backend services are smooth, stable and aligned.

Job Description

• Design and build Gateway Services with high performance and reliability
• Build technical products including unified data access layer, service frameworks, common libraries and practices for backend teams to accelerate the tech stack evolution towards a unified backend architecture
• Create high-quality software development kits, explore innovative technologies and practices to improve engineering efficiency and development experience
• Collaborate with other Tech Teams to implement company-level solutions for analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources and managing services sustainably

Requirements

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields
• 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)
• Strong and hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Go, Python, C++, Java
• Strong logical thinking abilities

Good To Have

• Hands-on experiences and knowledge on relational databases such as MySQL
• Familiar with Linux development environments and multi-threaded programming
• Familiar with common network protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP) and network programming
• Experience in server/web security
• Experience in design and development of large-scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experiences in Web Service frameworks and performance tuning of Web Server