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Job description for Senior Backend Engineer (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.
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team, to work on our career progression and job marketplace product, which helps young professionals in Southeast Asia develop career skills, learn from a community, and secure jobs.
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.
Some responsibilities include:
- 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
Must-Have's:
- 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-Have's:
- 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
Our Tech Stack:
- ReactJS
- Node.js (TypeScript)
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
Lever internal reference: 7d127dbb-65c8-4f82-9cf6-85728da82cb9