Senior Backend Engineer: Production-Grade, Scalable Systems

DADACONSULTANTS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

My client, a technology-driven company in Singapore, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend services powering high-traffic applications. You will work on distributed systems at scale and influence architectural decisions, collaborating with product, platform, and infra teams.

This role suits engineers who value reliability, performance, and long-lasting systems, with ownership from design through production impact.

Qualifications

• Solid experience as a Backend Engineer working on production systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Java/Go/Python/C++).
• Good understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, data consistency and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in production environments.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend features, from technical design to deployment and monitoring.
• Participate in system architecture discussions, including scalability, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
• Optimize existing systems for throughput, latency, stability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Support production systems and participate in incident analysis when needed.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Java / Go / Python / C++

Cloud native / containerization / CI/​

Job description

My client, a technology-driven company in Singapore, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend services powering high-traffic applications. You will work on distributed systems at scale and influence architectural decisions, collaborating with product, platform, and infra teams.

This role suits engineers who value reliability, performance, and long-lasting systems, with ownership from design through production impact.