Senior Software Engineer - ShopeePay

Shopee; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ShopeePay is hiring a backend engineer to design and develop financial backend components including payment, payout, channel integration, and fund security modules. You will help craft high-concurrency, high-availability systems with strong data and security controls.

You will work with cross-region teams to integrate payment gateways, support diverse business lines, and continuously apply AI tools to raise efficiency and quality in daily tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, information engineering, or related majors with fundamentals in CS.
• Minimum 3 years of full-time backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Golang, Python, or Java; experience with MySQL, Redis, and Kafka.
• Familiar with Linux, performance troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Experience in payment/fund processing systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design and development of financial backend systems (payment, payout, channel integration, fund security).
• Contribute to architecture for high-concurrency, high-availability, high-performance systems.
• Design modules ensuring fund and data security and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Integrate regional channels and gateways across SEA and LATAM.
• Provide payment and payout capabilities for e-commerce, DP, food delivery, and ShopeePay.
• Proactively learn and apply AI tools to improve daily work efficiency and quality.
• Collaborate with multinational teams to solve business problems.

Skills

Algorithms

Data structures

Communication

Self-driven problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Linux

Job description

• 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

• Participate in the design and development of financial backend systems, such as payment, payout, channel integration, and fund security modules.
• Contribute to the architecture design and development of high-concurrency, high-availability, and high-performance systems.
• Design and develop system modules with stringent requirements for fund security, data security, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Integrate channels and gateways across regions including Southeast Asia and Latin America.
• Provide payment and payout capabilities for businesses such as e-commerce, DP (Digital Payments), food delivery, and ShopeePay.
• Proactively learn and apply AI tools to rapidly improve daily work efficiency and quality.
• Collaborate with multinational teams to provide solutions to business problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, information engineering, or related majors with in-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc).
• At least 3 years of full time working experience with backend systems and development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Golang, Python, or Java;
• Proficiency or previous experience with core middleware such as MySQL, Redis, and Kafka.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, with prior experience in performance troubleshooting and optimization.
• Prior experience in payment systems or fund processing systems; prior experience in e-commerce or e-wallet systems is a plus.
• Strong team collaboration skills, proactive communication, and self-driven problem-solving ability.