Senior Backend Engineer

2 weeks ago


Singapore Shopee Full time $150,000 - $200,000 per year

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:

As a Tech Platform team, the Shopee Tech Services team supports Shopee's business growth by providing reliable and sustainable technical products and solutions. The team builds common services, frameworks, libraries and practices that promote the unification of backend architecture, improve engineering efficiency and ensure that the development for all shopee backend services are smooth, stable and aligned

Job Description:

  • Design and build Gateway Services with high performance and reliability
  • Build technical products including unified data access layer, service frameworks, common libraries and practices for backend teams to accelerate the tech stack evolution towards a unified backend architecture
  • Create high-quality software development kits, explore innovative technologies and practices to improve engineering efficiency and development experience
  • Collaborate with other Tech Teams to implement company-level solutions for analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources and managing services sustainably

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields
  • More than 2 years of relevant experience
  • Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems
  • In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc)
  • Strong and hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Go, Python, C++, Java
  • Strong logical thinking abilities

Skills below are optional but preferable

  • Hands-on experiences and knowledge on relational databases such as MySQL
  • Familiar with Linux development environments and multi-threaded programming
  • Familiar with common network protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP) and network programming
  • Experience in server/web security
  • Experience in design and development of large-scale distributed systems
  • Hands-on experiences in Web Service frameworks and performance tuning of Web Server


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