Expert Software Engineer - ShopeePay

Shopee; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ShopeePay R&D team seeks an experienced engineer to lead the development of the e-wallet financial system across multiple tech stacks. You will drive large-scale distributed architecture, system design, and performance optimization to ensure reliability and scalability.

Join a cross-regional team spanning Shenzhen, Singapore and Indonesia to deliver solutions for tens of millions of merchants and hundreds of millions of end users, collaborating with multinational groups and mentoring colleagues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in internet industry projects with distributed systems.
• Proficient in Go, Python, or Java.
• Strong knowledge of databases and middlewares (MySQL, Nginx, Redis, Kafka).
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and high concurrency systems.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development of ShopeePay e-wallet financial system across multiple tech stacks.
• Acting as an expert on distributed system design, performance optimization, availability, and refactoring.
• Designing inter-system architectures.
• Defining well-thought-out and balanced technical solutions.
• Driving to solve technical hurdles during project delivery.
• Breaking down solutions into executable tasks and estimating difficulty.
• Providing initiatives to refactor systems for better structure or performance.
• Collaborating with multinational teams to address business problems.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

System design

Performance optimization

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Nginx

Redis

Kafka

Job description

About the Team

The ShopeePay R&D team is a cross‑regional international team, located in Shenzhen, Indonesia and Singapore R&D centers. Among our members are not only technical masters from major domestic manufacturers, but also top talents from world‑renowned companies and universities. ShopeePay, a subsidiary of Sea Group, is a mature e‑wallet service. It provides the most popular and stable payment method for Shopee’s e‑commerce platform. We have reached cooperation with several financial institutions to provide stable and secure payment services for tens of millions of merchants and hundreds of millions of C‑end users. We are committed to creating the best payment experience for managing and transferring funds, providing users with more and more flexible choices when receiving and paying, so that every small and medium‑sized merchant has equal development opportunities, and promoting the vigorous development of the overall payment environment in Southeast Asia/South America, restructuring the payment life of the local people. Backed by Shopee’s e‑commerce business, ShopeePay has a unique opportunity to become a leader in payments in the various markets. Join us and become a member of ShopeePay to develop and build a scalable distributed e‑wallet payment system together. You will gain a lot of opportunities for technological growth while changing the global payment landscape.

Job Description

• Leading the development of ShopeePay e‑wallet financial system, using cutting‑edge technologies across multiple tech stacks.
• Acting as an experienced expert on various aspects such as large scale distributed system design, system performance optimization, system availability, system refactoring, etc.
• Designing inter‑system architectures.
• Defining well‑thought‑out and balanced technical solutions.
• Driving to solve all technical hurdles during project delivery.
• Break technical solutions down to executable tasks and estimate task difficulties.
• Providing more initiatives and reasonable solutions to refactor existing systems into a better structure or better performance.
• Collaborating with multinational teams to provide solutions to business problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, information engineering, or related majors with in‑depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc).
• 5 years or more hands‑on experience in internet industry projects. Experience in developing distributed systems for internet finance, payments, etc. is preferred.
• Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems with solid foundation in at least one of the programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, etc.
• Strong knowledge of common tech stacks such as databases (MySQL) and typical middlewares (Nginx, Redis, Kafka, etc.), common RPC frameworks, etc.
• Strong technical background in designing and developing large‑scale distributed systems. Experience in service‑oriented architecture and high‑concurrency systems preferred.
• Strong logical and abstract thinking abilities.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills, highly self‑driven and goal‑oriented.