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TLG131 - BACKEND ENGINEER

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TLG131 - BACKEND ENGINEER

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IT

Junior/Middle

Malaysia

Full-time

Responsibilities

We are seeking a backend engineer who is passionate about building highly scalable serverless apps with creative thinking and innovation. You will be working with a state-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS. This role will work closely with business owners, the Business Development Team, the UI/UX Team, the QA, and the DevOp Team. You love to learn as you go and can pick things up quickly. You have experience building API-driven / Serverless apps. You have the strong technical capability to develop from modern UI components to API-driven back-end code that can scale to power rapidly expanding and evolving marketplace platforms. If you are looking for a team with a passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly scalable microservices while having fun together, we are your destination.

  • Building & consuming REST API services (with the ability to create services preferred) in an AWS environment (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB)

  • Work with third-party JavaScript SDK and API services

  • Draft architectural decisions together with the Tech Lead and explore new technologies

  • Have a direct impact on team processes by regular agile retrospectives

  • Work well in teams, respecting and welcoming ideas from partners, business stakeholders, and technical experts

  • You will have involvement and ownership from product ideation, design, and development, to production deployment, support, and maintenance

  • Proposing solution alternatives, analyzing tradeoffs, and making high-impact product and engineering decisions

  • You will be working on migrating existing monolith PHP applications to serverless microservice apps and implementing improvements and new features to our various VueJS single-page applications

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in Python, HTML, CSS (SCSS preferred), and advanced JavaScript & microservices development

  • 3+ years of practical programming experience with JavaScript Frameworks like Vue.js, React, React Native, and jQuery

  • You have strong expertise with MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Aurora, and DynamoDB NOSQL databases

  • Strong knowledge in building backend services and APIs using Python or NodeJs

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and web services technology

  • Version control with Git (Gitlab)

  • Solid background in building complex customer-facing products coming along with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Be passionate about writing well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the codebase in check

  • Experience with Test Driven Deployment (TDD) and CI/CD tools

  • Operational experience with public cloud deployments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)

  • Comfort with dynamic startup environments where change is constant and there is a need to be largely self-guided on complex problems

  • Attention to detail and a high degree of individual ownership

  • Ability to set realistic deadlines and meet them

  • We are looking for someone who is a self-starter and can take on any task and own it from start to finish

*** Nice to have

  • AWS Fargate

  • Amplify and Appsync

  • iOS and Android mobile app development

Benefits

Working location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Salary range: Up to USD 2,200 Gross

Infomation

Offered Salary

2,000 $ - 2,200 $

Skills

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