Assistant Manager, Backend

Department Engineering and Technology
- LevelExperienced (Individual Contributor)
- LocationSingapore

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

**About the Team**:

- The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

**About the Team**:

- 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 Payment service and the foundation of Seamoney, providing the integrated/stable platform for various financial products or scenarios, aiming to provide one-stop user experience as a top payment ecosystem.
- Backed by Shopee's e-commerce business, ShopeePay business grew fast and became the leading payment provider in multiple markets of Southeast Asia. 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 in Southeast Asia/South America, and restructuring the payment life of the local people.
- Join us and become a team manager of ShopeePay to develop and build a scalable distributed payment system. You will gain a lot of opportunities for technological growth while changing the global payment landscape.
- Leading the team, such as payments, wallets, acquiring, transtractions, security, etc in Southeast Asia and other regions.
- Develop security, high reliability and complex transaction systems for financial business; handle concurrent processing scenarios with smooth user experience.
- Defining flexible and adaptable system function modules and deployment schemes for different business scenarios, physical environments and regulatory requirements in multiple regions in Southeast Asia.
- Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization.
- Oversee the development of Proof-of-Concept/ solutions and provide technical expertise on the development of software and platform features, ensuring that appropriate security and risk factors are considered.
- Responsible for guiding the team members in the project, tackling the technical difficulties of the project, and ensuring the delivery time and quality.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor degree or above of Computer Science or Information Technology, more than 7-10 years of backend development experience, more than 1 year of team management experience;
- Proficiency in at least one of Golang/Python/C++/Java; proficient in common data structures, algorithms and multi-threading technology;
- Familiar with MySQL/Oracle and other database and common performance optimization methods, familiar with middleware components such as Redis, HBase, Kafka;
- Familiar with distributed architecture; familiar with microservice frameworks such as K8S; familiar with network protocols such as TCP/HTTPS; familiar with data exchange formats such as XML/JSON/ProtoBuf;
- Experience in financial system development is preferred, and experience in high-concurrency system development is preferred.