Back End Developer

About This Role

This role involves the development of backend systems, focusing on requirement analysis, system design, coding, integration testing, and deployment. It suits a backend software engineer with strong programming skills and experience in modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with the Product Manager to understand and analyze requirements via Scrum planning or meetings
• Work with frontend members to clarify Rest APIs before implementation
• Design new features and review/feedback on technical designs for other members’ tasks
• Implement tasks applying basic techniques (unit test, an ORM framework, a web framework) and SOLID principles
• Solve technical related difficult problems (library conflict, system scaling, fault tolerance, distributed transaction, track logs for distributed system, integrating with 3rd party system) and database related difficult problems (query optimizing)
• Implement and maintain integration testing with CI
• Implement CI/CD flows/pipelines with TeamCity, Argo CD, Helm, K8S, Docker
• Modify and revise source code after other members’ code review
• Code review for other members
• Fix bugs raised by QA members

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent
• Upper-Intermediate level of the backend programming language Golang, but strong Java/Scala is acceptable
• Minimum 4 years of work experience as a backend software engineer
• Experience in designing and developing backend APIs and services with MVC and ORM framework on relational databases such as SQL Server and MySQL
• Experience with microservices architecture, OOP or functional programming, and design patterns
• Experience with one of the message queuing technologies such as ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, Redis
• Familiarity with modern build/deploy pipelines and tools (Jenkin/TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Helm)
• Good knowledge of Linux OS (CentOS, Ubuntu) and related tools (SSH tool, terminal usage)
• Familiar with source version control (Git)
• Knowledge about Unit Test, TDD
• Familiar with working processes: Agile/Scrum
• Work well in teams or groups
• Work well under high pressure and independently
• Self-study capability
• Good English communication skills, at least at reading and writing

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Azure cloud or cloud certification
• Experience with monitor tools (Grafana, Splunk) and indexing/search libraries (Solr, ElasticSearch)

Benefits