Senior Backend Engineer | Tech Lead, Cloud & Microservices

YouTrip; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

YouTrip, a leading multi-currency payment platform in Asia Pacific, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will provide technical leadership, design scalable systems, and mentor engineers in a fast-moving environment.

Join a culture focused on high-performance software and modern cloud infrastructure, collaborating with product, QA, and operations to deliver robust, scalable services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• 5+ years in software development with backend and cloud experience.
• Expert-level in Java, Python, Ruby, Scala.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design principles.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Testing: unit and integration testing for backend apps.
• Proven ability to lead projects and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers.
• Contribute to design and architecture of complex systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with system architecture.
• Write high-quality, scalable, maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and standards.
• Lead or contribute to project planning and estimation.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate requirements into solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for code, design, and architecture.
• Ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible to the team.
• Work closely with product management, QA, and operations.
• Share best practices and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Architecture design

Java

Python

Ruby

Scala

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Unit testing

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

YouTrip, a leading multi-currency payment platform in Asia Pacific, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will provide technical leadership, design scalable systems, and mentor engineers in a fast-moving environment.

Join a culture focused on high-performance software and modern cloud infrastructure, collaborating with product, QA, and operations to deliver robust, scalable services.