Backend Engineer – Unified Platform & Gateway Services

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

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