Senior Backend Engineer

SCREENING EAGLE SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain their cloud application stack. The role emphasizes developing robust web APIs and mentoring junior developers. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, practical backend development experience, and strong skills in AWS/GCP. The position involves ensuring the robustness of services and improving code testing practices. This is an excellent opportunity for those passionate about technology and collaboration.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years’ experience with AWS/GCP services.
• At least 4 years of backend development for real-world products.
• Experience in writing schemas and designing high-performance queries.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of backend tasks and collaborate with development teams.
• Design and implement business logic using strategic data structures.
• Develop, test, document, and deploy web APIs based on business requirements.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Data structure fundamentals

System design skills

Troubleshooting skills

Self-motivated

Strong debugging skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

GCP

SQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Gitlab CI/CD

Ansible

Terraform

Redis

Job description

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.