Staff Backend Engineer (Regional Tech Lead)

RemotePeople; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

RemotePeople is seeking a Regional Technical Lead to own regional production issues, lead a small backend/SRE team, and drive backend module design for the App. You will manage incident response, regional releases, and performance tuning while ensuring data governance and observability across services.

The role combines troubleshooting, development, and ops, requiring deep Java/Spring Boot expertise and strong leadership across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in CS/SE preferred.
• 8+ years of Java backend development with 2+ years in tech lead or people management.
• Expert in Java/Spring Boot; experience with microservice stacks like Spring Cloud.
• Strong MySQL skills and database performance tuning.
• Proficient with Redis and messaging systems (Kafka/RocketMQ).
• Hands-on incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Solid AWS knowledge and containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own regional production issues as incident commander and lead postmortems.
• Maintain regional stability: releases, rollbacks, scaling and incident runbooks.
• Lead design and development of App backend modules (user, community, commerce).
• Ensure data governance and compliant access to production data.
• Lead 1–2 local engineers; liaison between region and HQ team.
• Build self-service tooling to reduce recurring investigations.

Skills

Java backend

Spring Boot

Incident management

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Postmortems

MySQL

Redis

Kafka / RocketMQ

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab)

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana/ELK

Job description

Join an overseas backend team as the regional technical lead. You will be the first responder and incident commander for regional production issues, lead the local team (backend engineer and SRE) to keep the region stable, and drive the design and development of App backend modules. The mix of troubleshooting, development, and operations work will shift with business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Own regional production issues: act as incident commander for the region; use logs, monitoring, tracing, and data backtracking to identify root causes of errors, user reports, and data anomalies; drive fixes to closure, lead postmortems, and land improvement items. Primarily for your region, with support to other regions when needed
• Regional stability and operations: hold production access for the region and independently perform releases, rollbacks, scaling, and emergency response; design and maintain regional monitoring, alerting, degradation plans, and incident runbooks
• Backend design and development: lead the design, API development, and core code maintenance of App backend modules (user, community, commerce, campaigns, messaging); own technical design review and code review for changes made in the region
• Data compliance and access governance: query and handle production data under the company's data classification and access policies; deliver analysis that is accurate and reproducible; build regional processes and tooling for data access
• Team leadership: lead 1‒2 local engineers (backend / SRE), covering task assignment, technical coaching, and performance feedback; serve as the liaison between the region and the HQ engineering team
• Tooling and efficiency: turn recurring investigations into scripts, runbooks, and self-service tools to reduce repetitive work and improve regional support efficiency

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or above; Computer Science / Software Engineering preferred
• 8+ years of Java backend development, including 2+ years as a tech lead or people manager
• Expert in Java and Spring Boot, with experience architecting and refactoring complex business systems; familiar with Spring Cloud or similar microservice stacks
• Strong database skills: complex MySQL queries, indexing and execution plans, slow query optimization, and capacity assessment
• Proficient with Redis; familiar with Kafka / RocketMQ internals and common pitfalls
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting high-traffic production services and independently commanding incident response
• Rigorous and detail-oriented; committed to accurate, reproducible results and documented investigations

DevOps Requirements

• Solid working knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, ALB, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM, CloudWatch); able to independently troubleshoot networking, permission, and resource issues
• Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes; able to deploy, roll back, scale, and debug services independently
• Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Familiar with observability stacks such as Prometheus / Grafana / ELK; able to design alert rules and dashboards
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is a plus

Nice to Have

• Experience building products deployed across multiple regions; comfortable with cross-time-zone collaboration
• Experience managing cross-border or remote teams
• Experience triaging and resolving customer complaints or support tickets
• Backend experience in IoT / smart hardware / parenting or health applications