Senior Backend Engineer (3 Months Contract)

SCREENING EAGLE SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for a 3-month contract role focusing on designing and maintaining cloud applications. Responsibilities include backend development, API deployment, and mentorship of junior developers. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, strong programming skills, and experience with AWS/GCP and containerization technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills with real-world product experience.
• At least 2 years' experience with AWS/GCP services.
• Experience in SQL databases and high-performance queries.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of backend tasks and collaborate with development teams.
• Design and implement business logic using appropriate data structures.
• Develop, test, document, and deploy web APIs and batch jobs.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Data structures and algorithms fundamentals

System design and architecting skills

Troubleshooting and debugging skills

Self-motivated and eager to learn

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

GCP

SQL databases

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Terraform

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. This is a 3 months contract role, with possibilities of conversion to full-time base on performance.

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.