Senior Backend Engineer - Payment Platform

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead ShopeePay E-wallet and acquisition systems. You will work across multiple tech stacks, focusing on high-concurrency platforms and reliable API design.

The role requires 5+ years of backend experience and hands-on work with MySQL, Nginx, Redis, Kafka, and RPC frameworks to ensure scalable payments and robust services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/CE/IS.
• 5+ years of full-time backend experience.
• Strong background in designing large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of ShopeePay E-wallet and acquisition platform.
• Act as expert on large-scale distributed system design and performance optimization.
• Design inter-system architectures for high concurrency platforms.
• Define well-thought-out and balanced technical solutions.
• Build internal tools and automate internal systems.

Skills

Golang

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/SE/CE/IS)

Tools

MySQL

Nginx

Redis

Kafka

RPC frameworks

Job description

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

About the Team:

• The ShopeePay R&D team is a cross-regional international team, located in Shenzhen, Indonesia and Singapore R&D centers.
• Among our members are not only technical masters from major domestic manufacturers, but also top talents from world-renowned companies and universities.
• ShopeePay, a subsidiary of Sea Group, is a mature E-wallet service. It provides the most popular and stable payment method for Shopee's e-commerce platform. We have reached cooperation with several financial institutions to provide stable and secure payment services for tens of millions of merchants and hundreds of millions of C-end users.
• We are committed to creating the best payment experience for managing and transferring funds, providing users with more and more flexible choices when receiving and paying, so that every small and medium-sized merchant has equal development opportunities, and promoting the vigorous development of the overall payment environment in Southeast Asia/South America, restructure the payment life of the local people.
• Backed by Shopee's e-commerce business, ShopeePay has a unique opportunity to become a leader in payments in the various markets.
• Join us and become a member of ShopeePay to develop and build a scalable distributed E-wallet payment system together. You will gain a lot of opportunities for technological growth while changing the global payment landscape

Job Description:

• Leading the development of ShopeePay E-wallet and acquisition system/platform, using cutting-edge technologies across multiple tech stacks.
• Acting as an experienced expert on various aspects such as large scale distributed system design, system performance optimization, system availability, system refactoring, etc.
• Design inter-system architecture for high concurrency platforms.
• Defining well-thought-out and balanced technical solutions.
• Build internal tools and automate internal systems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems.
• Prior minimum 5 years of full time working experience as a backend engineer.
• Strong technical background in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems. Focusing on improving reliability and API automation.
• Strong hands on experience with backend tech stacks such as Golang, python, and Java.
• Strong knowledge of common tech stacks such as databases (MySQL) and typical middlewares (Nginx, Redis, Kafka, etc.), common RPC frameworks, etc.

Kindly note that you can only be considered for one role at a time with any of the companies within our Group. If you have applied for other jobs with the Group, you will be considered for roles in the order of your application