Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company Description

foodpanda (small 'f') is the world's favourite way to order food online from the comfort of your home or office. Whether it's getting your hands on your favourite pasta, kebab or pizza, we believe that no one should have to suffer from hunger attacks ever again.

Our parent company, Delivery Hero, is a global leader in the food delivery industry processing over 3 million orders every day and operating in 40+ markets in the world, with 18,000 employees and approximately 500,000+ restaurant partners. In APAC, foodpanda operates in over 150 cities across 12 countries. Trivial problems can always become large technical challenges at scale. If you love technology, efficiency and simplicity as much as we do, there is no better place to experience this than in foodpanda.

We always genuinely care about experience, efficiency and scalability. We do not just solve technical problems but build the foundations for foodpanda's operations with the best tools on hand.

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Marketplace domain, supporting the expansion of our regional Product team in Singapore. You will work alongside a talented and motivated international team, driving innovation across the entire customer journey. This role focuses on everything visible on the screen—primarily the homescreen experience —for Restaurant, QuickCommerce, and New Business verticals.

Responsibilities:

• Diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges across software and infrastructure layers, with a focus on optimizing performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of system architecture to address current business needs while ensuring scalability and adaptability for future technologies.
• Drive code quality by enforcing coding standards, conducting comprehensive code reviews, and implementing automated testing frameworks to ensure early bug detection and software reliability.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables within autonomous teams.
• Work in a cross-functional and international team to deliver a holistic solution.
• Participate actively in architectural discussions, open reviews, and knowledge sharing with peers.
• Be an active partner for Product management in order to provide the best value for stakeholders and our customers.
• Good understanding and independent application of cloud environment, CI/CD, testing and validation
• Independently applies design patterns and best practices in reliability management (resiliency, autoscaling, monitoring, alerting)
• Mentor junior engineers, sharing technical knowledge and best practices while modeling strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills to uplift overall team performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. MBA or relevant postgraduate degree is a plus.
• Approximately 7-9 years of experience in building complex, distributed, large-scale backend systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud computing.
• Proficiency in Golang is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, including SOLID, Hexagonal Architecture, and Design-Driven Development.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), with a strong understanding of leveraging them for scalable and resilient solutions.
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies for efficient deployment and management of applications.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable end to end CI/CD pipelines is an added advantage.
• Experience with performance monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (normalization, ACID, indexing) and key-value stores (Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, with practical experience in automated testing (unit, integration, and functional).
• Excellent communication skills in English—both written and spoken—with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional and international teams.

Additional Information

What we offer:

• A dynamic and challenging work environment.
• A company committed to developing you personally and professionally.
• A great working atmosphere with regular company and team events.
• A vibrant and international team committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Responsibility from day one in a fast growing and global company.
• Other benefits include free food, health and dental insurance, and learning and development opportunities

foodpanda is operated by Delivery Hero Group ("DH Group") - the world's leading local delivery platform, operating in 70+ markets across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Delivery Hero started as a food delivery service in 2011 and now employs 40,000+ people globally. Additionally, Delivery Hero is pioneering quick commerce, the next generation of e-commerce, aiming to bring groceries and household goods to customers in under one hour and often in 20 to 30 minutes. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017.

In July 2024, Delivery Hero SE merged three of its market-leading food delivery businesses, foodora and Yemeksepeti in Europe, and foodpanda in Asia. All three businesses now make up the second-largest organization within the Delivery Hero Group, and leading food and QCommerce delivery in 18 markets in both regions.