Senior Backend Engineer

Screening Eagle Technologies AG; Singapore; On-site; SGD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and maintain their cloud application stack. The role requires strong programming skills, a solid understanding of data structures, and at least 4 years of backend development experience, preferably in Go. Candidates should be experienced with AWS/GCP services, DevOps practices, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. This role offers opportunities for mentorship and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills and solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with AWS/GCP services and related cloud technologies.
• At least 4 years in practical backend development in any language/framework, preferably in Go.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the cloud application stack.
• Develop, test, document and deploy web APIs and integrations.
• Mentor junior developers and adopt best practices.

Skills

Programming skills

Data structure fundamentals

System design and architecting

Troubleshooting skills

Cloud service experience (AWS/GCP)

DevOps practices

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

In-memory databases (Redis)

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

SQL databases

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Intro

Based in Singapore, the Senior Backend Engineer is responsible in designing, developing and maintaining the cloud application stack for Screening Eagle and Proceq tools – ensuring resilience and robustness of the services.

What will you do

• Take ownership of the backend tasks and work closely with the development teams.
• Strategic choice of data structure and algorithms to design and implement the business logic.
• Develop, test, document and deploy web APIs, batch jobs, webhooks, or integrations based on the business requirements.
• Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for testability
• Continuously document design decisions.
• Adopt best devops/tech‑ops practices and make continuous automated testing, releases and deployments.
• Offer mentorship to junior developers in the team.

What do we expect

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experiences.
• Possess strong programming skills, solid data structure and algorithm fundamentals.
• Possess strong system design and architecting skills with distributed systems.
• At least 2 years’ experience with AWS/GCP services and related cloud technologies.
• At least 4 years of practical backend development for real-world products in any language/framework, preferably in Go.
• Experience in SQL databases, writing schemas and designing high performance queries.
• Experience in in‑memory key‑value database like Redis.
• Deep technical understanding of scalability, resilience, high availability and the corresponding architecture, technologies and designs.
• Experience with devops/techops, like Jenkins gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience in Containerization and Orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Self‑motivated and willing to learn new technologies continuously.
• Embrace the open‑source community.

Our offer