Lead Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Marketplace Ops

Shopee; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopee is seeking an experienced Backend Leader to drive end-to-end software initiatives across the Buy/Sell platform. You will guide architecture and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, AI-informed features such as returns, refunds, settlements, and cross-stack optimizations.

The role emphasizes hands-on backend engineering, design review, and collaboration with product, QA, and ops teams to achieve high quality and reliability in a fast-growing global marketplace.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years designing scalable distributed systems.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience.
• Proficient in object-oriented languages such as Golang, Python, Java, or C++.
• Experience with backend middleware like MySQL bin logs, Kafka replication, and Redis high availability.
• Experience using AI to improve testing, debugging, incident response, code quality, or production operations is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a project team to deliver end-to-end projects across the software development life cycle.
• Realizing business goals through implementing features to Shopee as a platform, including but not limited to return and refund, and clearing and settlement.
• Use AI coding tools throughout the development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, debugging, refactoring, and code review.
• Build AI-native engineering practices, including Agent Harnesses, engineering Knowledge Bases, AI Loops, workflow automation, and knowledge reuse.
• Collaborate in a highly cross-functional environment with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Operation Engineers to deliver impact.
• Guide and review technical designs and coding outputs of the team, taking responsibility for progress and quality of projects
• Optimize the process of developing, debugging, testing, releasing, documenting, monitoring and operating on the cross-stack systems in the team
• Design well layered engineering architectures to model product requirements, abstract reusable components, and decouple independent modules
• Set the technical direction of the backend architecture, plan deliverables and milestones to execute the team's engineering strategy
• Mentor and coach team members on backend software engineering principles and practices
• Cultivate technical culture and innovation, and enhance engineering quality on a cross-team level

Skills

Golang

Python

Java

C++

Education

Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Shopee is seeking an experienced Backend Leader to drive end-to-end software initiatives across the Buy/Sell platform. You will guide architecture and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, AI-informed features such as returns, refunds, settlements, and cross-stack optimizations.

The role emphasizes hands-on backend engineering, design review, and collaboration with product, QA, and ops teams to achieve high quality and reliability in a fast-growing global marketplace.