Staff Backend Engineer (Regional Tech Lead)

re-zoo-me; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

re-zoo-me is seeking a regional technical lead to join an overseas backend team in Singapore. You will be the first responder and incident commander for regional production issues, lead a small local backend/SRE team, and drive the design and development of App backend modules across user, community, commerce, campaigns, and messaging.

You will own troubleshooting, incident response, and operations while shaping technical design and reviews.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Java backend development with 2+ years as tech lead.
• Expert in Java and Spring Boot; familiar with microservice stacks.
• Strong database skills: MySQL; proficient with Redis and messaging systems.
• Hands-on incident response and DevOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Own regional production issues: incident commander for the region; drive fixes and postmortems.
• Lead regional backend/SRE team; oversee design, API development, and code reviews.
• Design, implement, and maintain App backend modules (user, community, commerce, campaigns, messaging).
• Establish regional monitoring, runbooks, and recovery plans; craft region-specific tooling.

Skills

Java backend development

Tech lead experience

Spring Boot

Microservices / Spring Cloud

Incident response / SRE

DevOps

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

RocketMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab)

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Terraform

AWS

Job description

About the Role

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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
• DevOps skills as described below
• 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
• SRE or platform engineering background