Software Engineer - Backend

Job description

### **Our Journey** The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 20 million active members across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$900 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout. ### Your Adventure Ahead - You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects. - Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features - Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable - Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services - Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience - Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers. - Encourages others to follow engineering best practices. - Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs. ### Essentials to Succeed - At least 3 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications - Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications - Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred) - Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired) - Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services - Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale - Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility ### Technologies We Use & Love - Cloud: AWS - Infra: Kubernetes - Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python - Relational database: Postgres - Message queue: Kafka, SQS - Continuous Integration: Gitlab / Jenkins - Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog - Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc. - Communication: Slack - Project Management: JIRA / Confluence - Other technologies: - Knative Eventing / Serving - Debezium + Kafka Connect