Senior Backend Engineer

Screening Eagle | INSPECT; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Screening Eagle | INSPECT, based in Singapore, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and maintain the cloud application stack for Screening Eagle and Proceq tools, ensuring resilience and scalability.

You will own backend tasks, design data models, develop APIs and batch jobs, advocate testability and DevOps practices, and mentor junior developers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong programming skills and solid data structures/algorithms.
• Strong system design and distributed systems knowledge.
• At least 2 years of AWS/GCP experience.
• Minimum 4 years of backend development experience, preferably Go.
• Experience with SQL databases and high-performance queries.
• Experience with Redis or in-memory stores.
• Understanding of scalability, resilience, and high availability.
• Experience with DevOps/techops tools and CI/CD.
• Containerization and orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging skills and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of backend tasks and work with development teams.
• Design and implement data structures and algorithms for business logic.
• Develop, test, document and deploy APIs, batch jobs and webhooks.
• Emphasize testability and quality in code.
• Document design decisions and adopt DevOps practices.
• Mentor junior developers in the team.

Skills

Programming

Distributed systems

System design

Backend development

Debugging

Mentorship

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

AWS

GCP

CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab)

Ansible

Terraform

SQL databases

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.