Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Growth (Remote possible)
Job description for Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Growth (Remote possible) at Glints Malaysia
At Glints, we are building the #1 tech-enabled recruitment and career discovery platform in Southeast Asia that helps people and organisations realise their human potential by joining great organisations, learning the right skills and building great teams.
About This Role
The mission for this role is to build products/features that drive growth in terms of the number of active users, through SEO, content, owned, and paid marketing channels, with solid software engineering foundations, in a timely manner and collaboratively in a team. This role is dedicated to the growth mission.
Why This Job Is Awesome
You will be entrusted to lead and develop product features, and eventually epics, with the engineering team; as well as work collaboratively with product managers and product designers to actively shape product ideas. You will also lead and introduce technical standards or practices that ensure quality, enable iterations, and save the team time in the long run.
Over here at Glints, we emphasize cross-functional teamwork and user feedback a lot. Like 3-user-sessions-a-week level. More than technical wizardry, we're also looking for builders who want to make a tangible impact on our users' lives.
What You Will Be Doing
- Deliver features and fixes according to product needs reliably
- Building features with performance, reliability and security in mind
- Maintaining code quality through intentional architecture, documentation and code review
- Lead and contribute actively to technical and product discussions
- Champion and represent cutting-edge web technologies in product discussions to solve users' problems
- Participating in user interviews and usability tests
Who We Are Looking For
- Solid understanding of good software engineering practices (version control, code reviews, testing, refactoring, …)
- Well-versed in web performance, and has experience optimising it
- Experience in setting up, migrating and maintaining databases
- Good grasp of client-side technologies and can thus pick up frontend frameworks easily
- Practitioner of TDD and has good understanding of the testing pyramid
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience in DevOps and in using the surrounding ecosystem of tools
- Experience in teaching and mentoring on technical skills and concepts
- Good grasp of security principles, and develops with a security-first mindset
- Sufficient business acumen to translate business problems into internal software solutions
Preferred Tech Stack
- Node.js
- React.js
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
Lever internal reference: f2c0bad3-860e-496d-b5c0-ba86b45d6ef5
About the company
Let’s Realise Human Potential.
We are building Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment that helps people build their dreams by joining great organisations, learning the right skills and building great teams.
We have impacted many lives but there’s still plenty to be done. If you’re ready to grow and make an impact, you’ve come to the right place.
What is Glints?
Glints is a career development and recruitment platform with an enduring purpose of contributing to a world where people and organisations can realize their human potential.
Our tech-enabled approach to recruitment and career discovery connects more than 1.5 million candidates to their next dream opportunities, has supported more than 30,000 companies in finding top talents, doubled recruiter efficiency, and has raised more than US$10M+ from best venture investors in Asia to-date. Our agility and firm hold on our core purpose and values has allowed us to remain resilient and thrive through tumultuous times.
We are proud to be recognized by LinkedIn as one of the Top 10 Startups in Singapore in 2020.
Office address
B-10-13, Empire Soho, Empire Subang, Jalan SS16/1, 47500, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
