Senior Backend Engineer | Java, Spring, Microservices, Kafka

FPT Asia Pacific; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FPT Asia Pacific is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to design and build high-performance, scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and a microservices architecture in Singapore. The role emphasizes distributed systems and enterprise-grade reliability in regulated environments.

You will craft RESTful APIs, event-driven components, and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), implement tests, observability, and CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers while

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of backend engineering experience, preferably in large-scale enterprise systems.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and modern JVM patterns.
• Build microservices following clean architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and asynchronous design principles.
• Implement RESTful APIs, event-driven components, and backend modules that meet business and technical requirements.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and low latency.
• Design and implement event-driven flows using Kafka (producers, consumers, partitions, schema management).
• Ensure message integrity, idempotency, retries, dead-letter queue strategies, and exactly-once/at-least-once processing where applicable.
• Build streaming and asynchronous integrations to support real-time and near real-time use cases.
• Work with relational and NoSQL data stores (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis).
• Design data models, queries, and schemas optimized for performance and maintainability.
• Integrate backend services with internal/external systems using REST, events, or batch interfaces.
• Implement robust automated tests (unit, integration, contract, performance) using JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, etc.
• Ensure observability through logging, metrics, and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Conduct code reviews, improve code quality, and enforce engineering best practices.
• Work closely with DevOps to build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps).
• Deploy and troubleshoot services on container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge-sharing and technical excellence across the team.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, Architecture, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in solution design discussions, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Microservices

Job description

FPT Asia Pacific is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to design and build high-performance, scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and a microservices architecture in Singapore. The role emphasizes distributed systems and enterprise-grade reliability in regulated environments.

You will craft RESTful APIs, event-driven components, and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), implement tests, observability, and CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers while